Twenty-two people were killed and 25 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack targeting a Shiite mosque in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad on Sunday evening, a police source said.
At least 12 people were injured in an explosion in the downtown of Egypt's capital Cairo late Tuesday, al-Ahram's Arabic website reported on Tuesday.
The Syrian troops on Thursday thwarted an infiltration attempt by the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front in the al-Qalamoun region north of the capital Damascus, killing 57 of them, according to the state news agency SANA.
The Egyptian army on Thursday killed a leader of Sinai-based, al-Qaida-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis militant group after fierce confrontations at his hideouts in North Sinai's Rafah city, a security source told Xinhua.
The Syrian army has confirmed the downing of a Syrian war jet by Israel over the Israeli- occupied Golan Heights earlier on Tuesday, according to the official SANA news agency.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al- Thinni has ruled out any negotiations with the Islamist armed alliance Libya Dawn, saying the government will launch new assaults to wipe it out.
A Palestinian was shot dead early Wednesday when an Israeli army force stormed a Palestinian refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank, medics said.
3 executed by Al-Qaida gunmen in Yemen for collaborating with U.S.
Lebanese Parliament stressed on Sunday that putting an end to the presidential vacuum must be a " priority," according to the Speaker Nabih Berri.
Islamic State (IS) militants killed more than 160 Syrian soldiers in Syria, according to online video footage published on Thursday, while U.S. President Barack Obama said his country has not developed a strategy in combating the Islamic group.
The Islamic State (IS) militants killed more than 160 Syrian soldiers who were captured by the terrorist group in the northern al-Raqqa province, according to activists' reports and online video footages published on Thursday.
The domestically-based Syrian opposition has criticized the formation of the new Syrian government as "bringing nothing new."
Iraqi lawmakers on Tuesday has finally fill in the vacant speakership, a key step toward the formation of a new government.
The ongoing Syria crisis, which began more than three years ago, shows no signs of abating, with infighting among rebel groups intensifying and the humanitarian situation worsening.
The seaside Gaza Strip is home to 1.8 million people, among whom 1.2 million are living in eight refugee camps.
An Egyptian court on Monday ruled that the al-Qaida-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis be listed as a terrorist organization, state-run Nile TV reported.
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Abu Ghaith has been convicted in New York of conspiring to kill Americans by serving as al Qaeda's spokesman after the Sept. 11 attacks, a spokesperson of the federal court told Xinhua on Wednesday.
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