An ammunition depot explosion in an area in the western Syrian city of Homs has claimed the lives of at least 40 people and left scores wounded, reports say.
A top Syrian military commander says Syria's army is fighting terrorism on behalf of the whole Arab world and that the countrys armed forces are undefeatable in the face of the terrorists.
The Israeli regimes air force is likely to strike Syria in the near future, according to a report released by The New York Times.
Iran has invited the Iranian nation as well as Muslims and freedom-seekers across the globe to take part in the World Quds Day rallies on Friday to vent their opposition to the Israeli regime.
A US drone has killed four people in Yemen Thursday, a security official says, the third such strike in five days as the Yemeni president prepared for White House talks.
A group of Saudi workers has begun a campaign for pay raise by posting a message on social media website Twitter, which has so far been tweeted about 17 million times.
Bahrain's king has issued new decrees, giving authorities more powers to strip citizenship and block suspected funding channels in attempts to quell escalating anti-government violence in the Persian Gulf nation.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he was "sure of victory" over foreign backed militants fighting to topple him, in an Army Day message carried by state media on Thursday.
An international rights group condemned the sentencing of a Saudi Arabian website founder to be whipped 600 times and jailed for seven years for setting up a "liberal" network.
Israeli regime forces are on a heightened state of alert ahead of international Al-Quds Day".