Population of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank has increased by 4.2 percent last year, as the Israeli regime remains indifferent to international warnings to stop its illegal occupation expansion.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey could ban Facebook and YouTube after local elections on March 30, adding they have been abused by his political enemies.
Car bombs in government-held districts of central Syria have killed at least 17 people and wounded many others.
The Syrian army has reported new operations and gains against militants across the country, saying it has also destroyed many armaments belonging to the militants.
Saudi state television has for the first time broadcast the "confessions" of a terrorist who returned from Syria where he had hoped to join al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, but was forced into the ranks of the notorious Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL).
The Israeli army has launched an espionage balloon to survey the area over the town of Metula, a week after Hezbollah vowed to retaliate for an Israeli air raid.
Egypt's ambassador to Qatar, who was recalled to Cairo last month over political tension between the two Arab states, will not go back to Doha for now, the Egyptian cabinet has announced.
Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen have executed one of their own because they suspected he was spying for the United States, a security official has said.
Syrian nuns who were abducted by radical militants in Syria have been relocated, as negotiators have lost contact with them, sources have said.
Syria has filed an official complaint to the United Nations over a recent Israeli attack in the occupied Golan Heights, for Tel Aviv’s direct support for militants in Syria.