Israel’s Military Chief of General Staff Benny Gantz has threatened Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip with another large-scale war.

A reality show about Muslim families in America carried by TLC cable channel will premier next Sunday, aiming at breaking religious stereotypes and misconceptions about the diverse religious minority in the US.

Syrians have reacted angrily to the decision by the Arab League to suspend their country as punishment for its failure to end its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

Violence against protesters does not seem to step, as early morning on Sunday, heavy fire and explosions were heard in Baba Amro and Insha’at neighborhoods in the central town of Homs, the Syrian General Council of the Revolution said.

The Mashair Railway, also known as Mecca Metro, transported 500,000 pilgrims to Mount Arafat and its surrounding plains where they gathered for the peak Day of Arafat on Saturday.

At least 20 people have been reported killed in the latest clashes in Syria as the government called on anyone with arms to turn themselves within one week to qualify for an amnesty.

Israeli occupation navy boats intercepted two Gaza bound aid vessels, the Irish Hurreyah and the Canadian Tahrir ships which were attempting to break a five year long blockade against the Gaza Strip. Occupation officers boarded the ships and towed them to Asdod in 1948-occupied Palestine.

Israeli warplanes pound the southern Gaza Strip for a second time within the space of a day, killing at least nine Palestinians, Press TV reports.

Ismail Haneyya, the Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza, announced the start of building a Minbar (pulpit) for the Aqsa mosque out of optimism that the holy mosque will soon be liberated.

Syrian tanks pounded an old district in the city of Homs on Saturday and three people were killed, activists said, after one of the bloodiest days of the seven-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.