Israeli warplanes have launched airstrikes on targets near the border between Lebanon and Syria, reports say.
Lebanon’s Beirut Arab University officials have announced that the university degree of the head of the so-called Syrian National Coalition is fake.
Atheel al-Nujaifi, governor of Iraq's Nineveh province and the parliament speaker's brother, has survived the third attempt on his life this month, officials said.
Syrian troops have made advances in a strategic Aleppo district that could secure a nearby prison against foreign-backed militants, the Al-Watan daily has reported.
The Israeli group of Shurat Hadin has called on the humanitarian international aid agency Oxfam to cut ties with two Palestinian organizations, accusing them of funding the "terrorist" group of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) based in Gaza.
The Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) has expressed fears over an increased "terrorist threat" to its country due to dozens of Norwegian nationals waging war in Syria.
Syrian Kurdish fighters have pushed radical militants out of the ancient town of Tell Brak in northern Syria, after three days of constant fighting.
Egyptian Prime minister Hazem Al Beblawi has announced resignation and dissolved his government, in a move just weeks before a presidential poll.
The number of Saudi extremists fighting in Syria and Iraq with other radical militants linked to al-Qaeda is several times higher than previously thought, triggering fears in Riyadh that they will return to wage war at home.
Despite warnings by regional central banks, Bitcoin payments are gaining a foothold in the Middle East markets.