The Israeli regime, disappointed from the West, seeks allies from member states of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) to form anti-Iran front in the region.
Al-Qaeda-linked armed groups have fought rival Syria militants near the country’s borders with Turkey in an outbreak of violence driven by the divisions between factions battling to rise to power in the Arab country.
Amnesty International has revealed widespread rights abuses in Turkish authorities' crackdown on mass demonstrations in June.
A 38-year-old Chilean woman has been arrested in Syria on terror charges, Chile's top diplomat says.
Iran has been elected as the rapporteur of the UN First Committee on Disarmament and International Security shortly after Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s inflammatory speech against Tehran.
Syrian military forces have killed a terrorist leader affiliated to al-Qaeda network in southwest Syria.
Gunmen have downed a military helicopter in Iraq, killing its five-member crew, officials say.
Syrian Mother Superior Agnes Mariam de la Croix has ruled out the allegations made by militants and the West over the chemical weapons attack in outskirts of Syrian capital Damascus.
Religious police in Saudi Arabia are under scrutiny and murder charges after a police patrol crashed into two brothers’ car during a hot pursuit in Riyadh last week.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey says the US plans to send arms to militants in Syria as the first stages of an effort to create “moderate Syrian military and police forces.”