President Bashar al-Assad’s mother Aniseh Makhlouf and other members of his inner circle have fled to the United Arab Emirates as the regime of the embattled president appeared to disintegrate, recent reports confirmed.

A car bomb exploded Monday next to a military checkpoint in a central town where Yemeni government forces waged their first offensive targeting al Qaeda militants in the area, killing 11 soldiers, security and military officials said.  

At least 36 people were killed as the death toll piled up in Egypt’s northeastern city of Port Said following a court verdict that sentenced 21 people to death for their role in one of the world’s deadliest incident in football violence.

Regime warplanes launched a wave of deadly raids across Syria on Saturday, including one that killed eight children, a watchdog said, as NATO declared Patriot missiles are now active on the Turkish border.

The Syrian National Coalition warned in a statement on Wednesday from a tragedy in the province of Aleppo, where the regime is continuing a series of ethnic cleansing towards Sunni areas, reported Al Arabiya.

Egypt’s Ahly Football Club hardcore fans – Ultras Ahlawy- blocked the Cairo metro on Wednesday afternoon and sieged the stock exchange building earlier on the day, amid protests they held to demand a swift verdict in the Port Said trial.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Tuz Khurmato, killing at least 35 people and wounding 70 others on Wednesday, security and medical officials said.

Jordanians voted Wednesday for a parliament touted to be the most powerful in the kingdom’s history, but with much of the opposition boycotting it is unclear how far the vote and its accompanying reforms will go to pacify a two-year long wave of protests.

A Palestinian young woman was killed and two others were wounded when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at a group of citizens near Arub refugee camp in Al-Khalil.

President Mohamed Morsy told fellow Arab leaders meeting in Riyadh on Monday that he opposes French-led military action in Mali against Islamist rebels.