The Pentagon says it plans to sell 24 Apache attack helicopters to Iraq in a deal worth $4.8 billion to help Baghdad battle anti-government militants.
US and British spy agencies routinely try to gain access to personal data from Angry Birds and other mobile applications, a report says.
The Syrian army has killed dozens of foreign-backed militants, including many foreigners, and seized their weapons during an ongoing campaign across the country.
Before and after pictures show the devastation wreaked by three-year war in Syria.
An Israeli soldier has been wounded in an explosion near the technical fence on the border with Lebanon, a security source says.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has lashed out at neighboring Saudi Arabia for backing terrorist groups operating inside his country.
Syrian peace talks in Geneva were deadlocked Monday over the issue of transferring power, but neither side walked away and the UN said the question of a political transition would be back on the table.
The Islamic Republic and a delegation of former world leaders from the so-called Elders group, paying an official visit to Iran, have called for an end to Syria's war.
A Bahraini court upheld on Monday jail sentences of 10-15 years for Shiite activists convicted of participating in street protests to topple the ruling regime.
A top militant who was the second in command in the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been killed in Syria in clashes with rival militants, activists say.