RIYADH: The mother of an Iranian teenager took her own life after security forces allegedly beat her daughter to death, the Metro reported.

Sarina Esmailzadeh, a 16-year-old YouTuber, was killed in a baton attack during a protest in Karaj last month, activists said.

Her family searched for her for 10 days before authorities handed over her body, according to the Metro.

Esmailzadeh’s YouTube channel includes videos of her without a hijab, dancing with a man, and discussing women’s rights.

BEIRUT: A US-led coalition drone strike in northeastern Syria on Monday killed a Daesh group militant, a Syrian security official said.

Speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, the official told the Associated Press that the strike targeted the Daesh member driving a motorcycle in the village of Hamam Al-Turkman.

The village is controlled by Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces near Tel Abyad. No other casualties were reported.

LONDON: Iranian school children were arrested on school premises on Sunday by security forces, the Guardian reported. 

Pictures of security forces arriving at schools in vans without license plates were shared on social media. 

According to the Guardian, Iranian Education Minister Mohammad Mahdi Kazem said that students involved in the protests had not been expelled, but their parents were being contacted.

AL-MUKALLA: Four Yemeni soldiers were killed and several others injured by roadside bombs in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan after military forces attacked Al-Mafed, Al-Qaeda’s bastion.

Mohammed Al-Naqeeb, a spokesman for the pro-independence Southern Transitional Council, which commands military operations in Abyan, told Arab News that two bombs exploded on Sunday as a convoy of soldiers drove through Omaran valley, an area that once housed Al-Qaeda facilities, killing four soldiers and injuring several others.

RAMALLAH: Palestinian residents of the Shuafat refugee camp and the nearby town of Anata on the outskirts of Jerusalem are facing growing hardship after Israeli military authorities imposed a blockade on the area. 

The crackdown followed a shooting incident at an Israeli army checkpoint on Saturday in which a soldier was killed and two other Israeli security guards were wounded.

At dawn on Sunday, Israeli security forces closed  all the entrances to the refugee camp, the town of Anata, and the suburb of Al-Salam, northeast of Jerusalem.