A suicide attacker blew up his car bomb on Sunday on a crowded square in Baghdad, killing at least six people, police and medical sources said.

The blast on Adan square, near an entrance to the Shiite neighborhood of Kadhimiyah, came just before the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.

The jihadist Islamic State group acknowledged losing control of the city of Derna in eastern Libya, promising to "avenge" its fighters, in a video posted on Twitter.

The 10-minute video posted late Saturday by the "media office of the province of Barqa" in Libya confirmed the loss of Derna after clashes.

A Palestinian who injured four Israeli border policewomen and a civilian when he drove his car into them was sentenced Sunday to 25 years in prison, the Israeli justice ministry said.

Court documents released by the ministry said that Mohammed Sleiman, from Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, admitted to five counts of attempted murder in a plea bargain.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has hailed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as the only leader who can "save" Egypt, after a deadly car bomb attack on Rome's consulate in Cairo.

He also vowed that Italy would not be "intimidated" after Saturday's attack claimed by the Islamic State group that killed one civilian and injured nine more people.

Bahraini authorities on Sunday re-arrested a prominent Sunni opposition leader for "violating the law," just three weeks after his release from jail, the interior ministry said on Twitter.

Ibrahim Sharif, who used to head the Waed secular group, had been freed on June 19 after spending four years in jail over his involvement in 2011 Shiite-led anti-government protests.

The United Nations and European states on Sunday welcomed a U.N. peace deal initialed by some Libyan factions but not by the opposition as a step towards restoring stability there.

Plunged into chaos since the 2011 overthrow of strongman Moammar Gadhafi, Libya has two parliaments and governments vying for power, as a slew of armed groups battle for control of its oil wealth.

Israeli police said Sunday they have arrested several Jewish suspects over an arson attack last month at a shrine where Christians believe Jesus performed the miracle of loaves and fishes.

The arson had sparked widespread condemnation and concern from Christians globally, with the site visited by some 5,000 people daily, while also drawing renewed attention to religiously linked hate crimes in Israel.

A senior leader of an al-Qaida-linked jihadist group that has been blamed for a spate of violence in Tunisia was among five militants killed by security forces in a recent raid, an official said Saturday.

"The DNA test just confirmed that Mourad Gharsalli was shot dead yesterday (Friday)," presidential spokesman Moez Sinaoui wrote in a post on his Twitter account.

The Islamic State jihadist group on Saturday released new footage of its June 2014 massacre of hundreds of mostly Shiite military recruits in Tikrit.

The highest estimates put at 1,700 the number of cadets IS gunmen captured at the Speicher military base near Tikrit and executed at various locations, mostly in the city's former presidential palace complex.

Libyan political parties and members of civil society initialed a UN-proposed peace accord in Morocco on Saturday, despite the absence of a rival parliament not recognized by the international community.

"This is a step, but it is really an important step along the path to peace," UN envoy Bernardino Leon said at a ceremony in the Moroccan resort of Skhirat marking the agreement.