Al-Qaeda-linked militant groups have retreated after two days of futile attacks on Aleppo’s central prison in northwest of Syria, which were blocked by the Syrian army.
Palestinian Hamas Movement has denied reports of being involved in the conflicts in the neighboring Egyptian Sinai and Syria, dismissing them as "baseless" and calling on media to stop making false accusations.
Syrian army has launched a major operation in Homs countryside which left at least one hundred foreign-backed militants dead.
A car bomb has exploded near an army intelligence building in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, northeast of Egyptian capital. Four soldiers have been wounded.
Turkish intelligence agencies believe recent reports over Ankara informing Tehran about a Mossad-operated spy network in Iran was a plot by Israeli media to discredit Turkey’s intelligence chief.
Two masked gunmen have killed a security officer and his bodyguard in southern Yemen while a bombing attack on a military command post in southern Ayban province killed at least 12 Yemeni soldiers.
A huge explosion has occurred at a suburban region of Syrian capital of Damascus, causing an unknown number of casualties, the state media reports.
Bahraini rights activists have launched a campaign urging South Korea to cancel an imminent shipment of over 1.6 million tear gas canisters reportedly ordered by the Saudi-backed Manama regime engaged in the suppression of the two-and-a-half-year-long uprising.
A group of unidentified gunmen have shot to death an Egyptian police sergeant in the violence-ravaged Sinai region, security sources said.
A spokesman for the abducted Lebanese pilgrims who were abducted a year ago in Syria says they have been freed through a prisoners swap deal.