Clashes have erupted between Israeli forces and worshippers at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem after noon prayers.

A long-awaited first round of peace talks between the Pakistani government and Taliban has begun in Islamabad after numerous delays and growing doubt over the chance of their success, sources said.

A Cairo court acquitted Sunday 61 backers of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and Al Jazeera cameraman Mohamed Badr, who were tried on charges of staging riot acts in central Cairo’s Ramses Square last July, a judicial source said.

Syrian government forces have attacked Aleppo with barrel bombs for a second day, with scores of people killed in 48 hours, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Taliban has named its senior leader, Qari Shakeel, as head of a nine-member consultative body to supervise proposed negotiations with the Pakistani government in an effort to end a decade-long war that has killed thousands.

Despite varying opinions on how and why the 9-11 tragedy took place, after this event the US has only been making headlines in connection with certain incidents.

One of the four trials against ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has resumed in the capital, Cairo.Mr Morsi reportedly turned his back on the judges, as he stood inside a soundproofed glass box at the hearing.

Syrian opposition activists say military helicopters have dropped barrels packed with explosives in the government’s latest air raids on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 23 people including a family trapped in a burning car.

Jabhat al-Nusra in Lebanon, a group named after al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, has said it carried out a suicide car bombing in a stronghold of the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah that has killed at least four people.

Israel’s finance minister halted the transfer of government funds to West Bank Jewish settlements on Saturday and ordered a probe into allegations that money meant to support municipalities had been funnelled to a pro-settler political group.