A powerful car bomb has hit Beirut’s southern suburbs leaving at least 53 people injured.
Egypt is set to vote on a new parliament by February 2014, after constitution amendments are approved in a referendum, a decree issued by the interim leader Adly Mansour’s says.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a ceasefire in Syria during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan urging everyone in the conflict to put down their arms.
Two days of violence in Iraq killed 25 people, including six family members shot dead while returning from a wedding, police officers and doctors said on Monday.
A joint news conference held by the Egyptian army and the interior ministry in capital Cairo has started with several reporters shouting in protest at the ouster of president Mohammed Morsi, Al Alam reports.
Syria's ruling Baath party has announced that it is going to change its top leadership figures including Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa.
The Syrian army has continued its massive mop-up operation in Aleppo countryside of al-Rashedin and totally cleared the region of the foreign-backed militant groups, Al-Alam reports.
Recent clashes raged between rival factions who are fighting against the government in Syria highlight failed attempts for forming an umbrella group to represent the opposition.
Washington has called on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood party to accept the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi and begin playing its role in the new setting of the ruling system.
The Syrian army has purged another district near Homs from militants during an ongoing cleanup operation in the strategic city.