Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager Friday in a clash with protesters near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian medical officials and security sources told AFP.
The Syrian army has regained control of a town on the highway linking Hama and Aleppo cities in western Syria after months of battles with insurgents, state television and a monitoring group said on Friday.
The Iraqi military said Friday it had recaptured a town south of Baghdad from the ISIS extremist group backed by allied Shiite militia.
After reports of ISIS used chemical agent against Kurdish fighters in kobane, Iraqi officials confirmed ISIS militants used chlorine gas during fighting with Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen last month north of Baghdad.
The Shiite Muslim minority in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province have long felt marginalized by the Sunni ruling dynasty, and protests for greater rights as part of the 2011 Arab Spring brought a crackdown on both protesters and demands for reform.
The Lebanese government says the tiny Mediterranean country will not accept any more Syrian refugees except “exceptional” cases.
The ISIS militant group gained ground Thursday around Kobane despite more than two weeks of intensive US-led airstrikes and an airdrop of weapons and ammunition to its Kurdish defenders, DPA reports.
The ISIS has become the world's wealthiest terror group, earning tens of millions of dollars a month from illegal oil sales and ransoms, US officials said Thursday.
ISIS terrorists besieging Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq have killed a commander of forces from the Yazidi religious minority defending the area, a fighter said on Thursday.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday agreement had been reached on sending 200 Kurdish peshmerga fighters from Iraq through Turkey to help defend the Syrian border town of Kobani against ISIS.