Egyptian military forces have stormed an anti-government protest rally by university students in the capital city of Cairo and in the northern province of al- Sharqiyah.
A major Israeli TV broadcaster has announced that recent freeing of Palestinian prisoners is intended by the Tel Aviv regime as a bargaining tool for building more settlements in occupied territories.
Israeli regime forces killed 27 Palestinians in the West Bank in 2013, three times more than the number recorded the previous year, according to a rights group.
New clashes between Iraqi security forces and insurgent militants in the nation’s Western al-Anbar Province have left at least four people dead and three more injured.
Suspected Israeli extremists have torched three cars belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank town of Jalzoun, police say, apparently in protest at Israel's release of 26 Palestinian prisoners.
Acting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has vowed to the 18 released prisoners who arrived in Ramallah that he would not rest until all prisoners are free.
A suicide car bomb that targeted the security headquarters in the southern Yemen city of Aden has killed at least three soldiers, a police official says.
Lebanese President Michel Sleiman has come under fire for accepting a 3-billion-dollar military aid from Saudi Arabia.
Damascus has officially asked the UN Security Council to prosecute Turkey and all countries that support the militants operating in Syria.
Two books authored by Robert Baer, an American author and a former CIA case officer, who was primarily assigned to the Middle East, are amazingly revealing.