US Secretary of State John Kerry has left the Middle East after four days of intense diplomacy negotiations which failed to bear any framework deal.
The Kuwaiti prime minister on Monday reshuffled his five-month old cabinet replacing seven members, including the oil and finance ministers, and raising the number of Islamists to four.
Tribesmen in Yemen's restive Hadramawt province blew up a major oil pipeline in retaliation for the killing by the army of one of their men, officials said on Monday.
Lebanon’s Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour described the death of Saudi terrorist Majed al-Majed, the commander of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, as a “blow to justice.”
Infighting among Takfiri militants has intensified as the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) has laid siege to the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on residents of Fallujah Monday to expel "terrorists" holding the city to spare it from an assault by the army, state television reported.
The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) is due to hold a meeting today in Istanbul amid increasing international pressure on its leaders to participate in the Geneva II peace conference scheduled to begin on January 22.
The Hamas spokesman called on the Egyptian envoy to "show respect for his diplomatic position" and stop what he called "incitement" against Hamas.
Syrian militants in the northern Damascus district of Barzeh on Sunday agreed a local ceasefire with President Bashar al-Assad's government after nearly a year of fighting, activists said.
Iraq is preparing a "major attack" to retake militant-held Fallujah, a senior official said Sunday, spelling a new assault for the city, west of Baghdad.