Syrian army has eliminated the armed terrorist groups in several areas, killing and injuring dozens of terrorists and inflicting heavy losses on militants.
Attacks in central Iraq, including two suicide car bombings aimed at checkpoints, killed 16 people on Monday, security and medical officials said.
Syria will hold a presidential election on June 3, the speaker of parliament said on Monday.
A pair of mortar shells fired by foreign-backed militants in Syria has hit near the parliament building in central Damascus, killing five people and injuring several others.
Saudi Arabia is reportedly considering removing country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Saud Al-Faisal, shortly after its spy chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan was removed.
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, whose kingdom has been one of the strongest supporters of the Middle East’s deadliest war has been named as the as the cultural personality of the year by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award team.
Egypt's election commission has announced two candidates for country’s presidential election that one of them is former army chief and Defense Minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
People in the besieged Gaza Strip receive an aid convoy sent by Arab and European activists who are working to help Gazans suffering from a seven-year old Israeli blockade.
Life in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria’s Damascus is becoming so grave with some 18,000 people facing starvation and leading relief agencies declaring the crisis "unprecedented in living memory".
The Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Syria, John Yazigi, says Syrian Christians "will not submit and yield" to foreign-backed extremist militants who attack "our people and holy places."