Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called on the United States and its allies to stop providing the militants in Syria with more weapons.
The Turkish armed forces have attacked a convoy of al-Qaeda-linked rebel vehicles in Syria in retaliation for cross-border fire, destroying three vehicles, Turkish media say.
Iraqi forces have wrested back control of key areas west of Baghdad that have been out of government hands for weeks amid a deadly standoff between militants and security forces.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says existing opportunities should be correctly used in Tehran-Ankara relations.
Syria's warring sides say peace talks in Geneva have taken a positive turn, but there are still deep divisions on what the focus of the negotiations should be.
Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian teenager north of the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reiterated that the Islamic Republic has deployed no military forces in war-stricken Syria.
The Bahraini regime has dissolved the Islamic Scholars Council, a Shia body, amid widespread crackdown on the majority Shias.
A young Saudi has returned to the Kingdom after spending six months fighting in Syria for the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), sources say.
The Syrian government has offered to let women and children leave the besieged city of Homs as negotiators from the warring sides discussed humanitarian gestures in the face-to-face talks in Geneva.