Bahraini police have summoned the head of the main Shi'ite Muslim opposition group al-Wefaq for questioning, a source at the interior ministry has said.
A US federal court has released new video footage showing California prison guards repeatedly spraying mentally ill inmates with pepper spray in an apparent attempt to convince the prisoners to take their medication.
Following several weeks of heavy fighting with militants, the Syrian army has taken full control of a strategic town near Aleppo in the north of the country.
A senior commander of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) says Israeli intelligence services has been helping some Syrian military defectors to be trained in order to hold posts in the Syrian military after the government falls.
South Africa's Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane says her country is going to “slow down” its ties with the Israeli regime because of regime’s continued violation of Palestinians’ rights.
Edward Snowden, former employee of US National Security Agency who blew the whistle over US illegal spying says the international community can persuade the US administration to drop spying charges against him.
Former director of Pentagon and CIA Leon Panetta has voiced strong support to Israel and threatened using military action against Iran saying that such threats should back up the ‘unprecedented sanctions’ the US has imposed on the Islamic Republic.
Terminal 3 at Los Angeles International Airport, California, was evacuated after a shooting incident in which several people have been wounded by gunfire.
A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan on Friday killed Pakistani Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud, security and militant sources said.
Proposals to end the Syrian conflict that ignore President Assad are not feasible, Russia’s Prime Minister says.