The Arab League kicked off a two-day summit in Doha where opponents of President Bashar al-Assad are representing Syria for the first time.

The democratic press assembly in Palestine filed a complaint with the Palestinian attorney general in Ramallah against US president Barack Obama calling for arresting and bringing him to justice for the murder of Palestinian cameraman Mazen Da’nna in Iraq several years ago.

A suicide bomber has blown himself up inside a mosque in central Damascus, killing Dr Mohammed Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti, a senior pro-regime Sunni cleric and longtime supporter of President Bashar al-Assad, state television has said.

A suicide bomber has blown himself up inside a mosque in central Damascus, killing Dr Mohammed Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti, a senior pro-regime Sunni cleric and longtime supporter of President Bashar al-Assad, state television has said.

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed Kurdish rebel leader, has issued a long-awaited ceasefire declaration that would be a major step towards ending a 30-year conflict that has cost around 40,000 lives in Turkey.

Car bombs and roadside blasts have killed at least 56 people and hundreds injured across the Iraqi capital Baghdad and elsewhere, police and hospital sources have said.

A car bomb near the city of Basra in southern Iraq has killed 10 people and wounded many others, local police say.

A brigadier general in the Syrian army and his son, a captain, defected on Saturday after preparations with the country’s armed opposition.

In response to increasing visits to Al-Quds from Asian Muslim tourists, Palestinian scholars have issued a new fatwa banning visit to Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, while under Israeli occupation.

Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying police recruits to a training center north of the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing nine people, police said.