Fierce clashes among Takfiri groups in Syria have left more than 1,000 foreign-backed militants dead over the past days, a report says.
The annual rate of Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians has almost quadrupled in eight years, UN figures show.
Palestinians in the West Bank say a mosque has been vandalized in an apparent attack by a fringe group of extremist Israeli settlers.
Foreign-backed militants in Syria are taking amphetamine stimulants to stay on their feet in exhausting battles against government forces, reports say.
A Saudi female Shoura Council member has criticized the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha) for its failure to contain growing corrupt practices in the ultra-conservative Kingdom, saying it has lost the confidence of citizens.
Egypt’s Arab Democratic Nasserist Party and other nationalist movements have announced their readiness to join the Syrian army in the fight against foreign-backed militants there.
Charity organizations have pledged $400m to help alleviate the humanitarian plight of Syrians affected by the foreign-hatched conflict, participants at a meeting of charitable NGOs say.
Reports have emerged revealing Qatar is in talks with the Syrian opposition to secure the release of 13 Syrian nuns held by militants in a town near the border with Lebanon since early December.
A Palestinian minister has criticized accused terrorists in Syria for blocking aid access to the Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp in the south of the Syrian capital, Damascus.
Western intelligence agencies have visited Damascus for talks on combating terrorist groups, Syria's deputy foreign minister says.