Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged follower armed groups in Syria to unite, an appeal aimed at rival affiliates of his terror network fighting there to oust President Bashar Assad.
Egyptian security forces have arrested head of Al Alam bureau in Cairo after attacking his home on Thursday morning.
Turkey has seized a truck loaded with 1,200 rocket warheads and other weapons near the border with Syria, the private Dogan news agency has reported.
Lebanon has found Israeli spying stations along its border, and has accused the occupying regime of committing espionage acts within its territories.
A Kuwaiti official has reportedly announced the country has accepted to take up the rotating seat at the Security Council which was earlier rejected by Saudi Arabia.
Forensic tests taken from Yasser Arafat’s corpse show unusually high levels of radioactive polonium-210, suggesting the Palestinian leader could have been poisoned.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has reaffirmed Washington's rejection of Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories as illegitimate.
Bomb attacks in Syria's capital Damascus and the country's south have killed at least 16 people, a day after Moscow and Washington failed to announce a date for proposed peace talks.
An Iranian prosecutor has been assassinated by unknown assailants in the southeast of the country.
Kurdish fighters in northern Syria have expelled al-Qaeda-linked militants from the majority Kurdish area of Ras al-Ain on the Turkish border, an opposition monitoring group says.