The Israeli regime says it has arrested over a dozen more Palestinians as its forces continue to search for three settlers allegedly abducted in the occupied West Bank.
Turkey has raised fears over potential spillover from turmoil in neighboring Iraq, as NATO promised not to hesitate to defend its ally from the widening conflict.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has rejected calls to form a so-called national salvation government in order to confront the ISIL Takfiri militants.
The Iraqi army continues mop-up operations against Takfiri militants of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the east and north of the country.
Al-Qaeda's Syrian branch has issued a loyalty pledge to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at a tinderbox town on the Iraqi border, a monitor says.
The first US troops deployed to assist the Iraqi army in combating a growing ISIL terrorist insurgency have arrived and begun work, the Pentagon has said.
Iraqi air strikes have killed at least 38 people as security forces held off attacks on a strategic town and an oil refinery, officials and witnesses say.
Don't be fooled by its name: The terror group "the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" plans to attack well beyond the borders of those two countries. After snatching an Iraq-Jordan checkpoint, Amman is on high alert.
Baghdad has not agreed to grant immunity from local prosecution to US forces that are being deployed to Iraq, which is fighting against Takfiri militants, reports say.
Military aircraft that conducted air strikes against ISIL military targets in western Iraq are believed to have been from Syria’s air force, a US official has told ABC News.