A knife-wielding Palestinian stabbed and wounded two Israeli officers in Jerusalem's annexed Old City on Monday before being shot dead by forces at the site, Israeli police said.

"A terrorist arrived at the Cotton Merchant's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City from the Temple Mount armed with a knife and stabbed two officers," a police statement said.

"In response, the officers fired at him and he was neutralised."

It was the second incident of its kind in two days.

A revived Iranian nuclear deal must secure "equal rights" for all world powers involved, Russia said Monday, after Iran asked for details of Moscow's demands for US guarantees on restoring the accord.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday that, before backing the Iran nuclear deal, Moscow wants written assurances from Washington that Western sanctions imposed on it over the Ukraine war will not affect its economic and military cooperation with Tehran.

Yemen's Huthi rebels have signed a UN agreement hoped to help stop a rusting oil tanker in the Red Sea becoming an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe, officials said Monday.

The 45-year-old FSO Safer, long used as a floating oil storage platform with 1.1 million barrels of crude on board, has been moored off Yemen's Red Sea port of Hodeida since 2015, without being serviced.

The Emirati budget carrier flydubai on Monday announced it is back in the black, posting $229 million in profits in 2021, after heavy losses suffered by the world's Covid-hit airline industry.

Flydubai, which is owned by Dubai like the giant airline Emirates, carried 5.6 million passengers last year, a 76-percent leap from 2020 when it lost $186 million at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

Dubai, a tourism and trading hub, has since October been hosting the delayed Expo 2020 world fair, which ends on March 31.

Iraq's National Museum reopened Monday to visitors after a three-year closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic and political unrest.

Treasures dating back 2,500 years to the neo-Assyrian empire alongside 9th century Islamic antiquities went back on display, including two winged bulls from the Nimrud site in the palace of Assurnasirpal II (883-859 BC).

"We've waited a long time to come here," said Tijen Kayralci, 65, part of a tour group from Turkey.

Israeli missile strikes killed two civilians early Monday near the Syrian capital Damascus, state media said, although a war monitor said the victims were pro-Iran fighters.

Israel carried out the strikes at around 5 am (0300 GMT), hitting positions south of the capital, Syria's official SANA news agency said.

"Our air defence systems intercepted the missiles, downing most of them," SANA added.

"Two civilians were killed and some material damage was incurred," it said.

Russia is recruiting Syrians and other foreign fighters as it ramps up its assault on Ukraine, the Pentagon said Monday.

Moscow entered the Syrian civil war in 2015 on the side of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and the country has been mired in a conflict marked by urban combat for more than a decade.

Now, US Department of Defense officials said, Russia's President Vladimir Putin was "on a recruiting mission" seeking to bring some of those fighters into the fray in Ukraine.

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank Sunday after he attacked troops with Molotov cocktails, the army said, following the earlier police shooting of a Palestinian teen.

Israeli soldiers "acted to stop the attack by firing at one of the suspects" near Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, an army statement said, adding that "the suspect was hit and later succumbed to his wounds."

It said another suspect managed to flee.

The Palestinian health ministry said 16-year-old Yamen Jafal was shot dead "by the occupation forces".

Fifteen soldiers died Sunday in an Islamic State group attack on an army bus in the central Syrian desert, a war monitor said, as state media reported a "terrorist attack".

Despite the fall of IS's "caliphate" in 2019, the group continues to launch deadly attacks from hideouts in the Syrian desert, which extends from the outskirts of the capital Damascus to the Iraqi border.

IS cells "attacked a military bus" in the Palmyra desert, "killing 15 soldiers and wounding 18 others", the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday dismissed as "irrelevant" Russian demands for guarantees that new sanctions linked to Ukraine will not affect Moscow's rights under a reworked Iran nuclear deal.

With the parties to the Iran agreement, which the US abandoned in 2018, now seemingly close to a new accord, Blinken rejected fresh demands voiced Saturday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine "have nothing to do with the Iran nuclear deal," Blinken said on CBS talk show "Face the Nation."