The chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has denied any involvement of the alliance in a military action against Syria.
A sixth US warship is now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five US destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be directed against Syria.
The leader of al-Nusra militant group has met with two CIA officers as well as Saudi deputy minister of defense Prince Salman bin Sultan in Jordan capital city of Amman.
US ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson has left the country after the end of her term in Cairo.
The chief of staff of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) has been prevented by militant group of Ayesha Brigade of entering the western coastal province of Latakia.
Lebanese Hezbollah resistance group has declared a state of alert and began deploying troops to the country’s south, as the possibility of a U.S.-led strike on Syria was publicly weighed.
Turkish political opposition parties have strongly rejected any military strikes in Syria, arguing that they have doubts about whether it was the Syrian army that used chemical weapons against people.
Israel plans to soon begin deporting migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, who number more than 50,000, back to Africa via Uganda, officials said.
Germany’s foreign minister has ruled out his country’s participation in a military strike in Syria after an apparent deadly poison gas attack.
UN inspectors investigating apparent deadly poisonous gas attacks in Syria headed to a military hospital Friday on the last day of their probe.