A deadly suicide car bombing has killed several people in the Syrian town of Salamiyeh, opposition activists and state media say.

Russia said on Monday that it is sending two planes to Lebanon to start evacuating its citizens from Syria, the strongest sign yet that President Bashar Assad’s most important international ally has serious doubts about his ability to cling to power.    

Three Britons are confirmed to have died and three more are unaccounted for after the Algeria hostage crisis, the prime minister has said.

Two car bombs exploded in southern Syria and a rocket slammed into a building in the north in a spike in civil war violence Friday that Syrian state media blamed on rebel fighters trying to topple President Bashar Assad.

Police in Egypt clashed on Friday with a crowd of furious Muslims who tried to storm a church after claiming that a Coptic man had tried to sexually abuse a six-year-old Muslim girl, security sources said.

Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a Palestinian youth as he approached the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian medical officials said.

Myanmar has said it is ending a military offensive against ethnic minority rebels in the northern state of Kachin in the face of growing international concern.

Two explosions have struck Aleppo University in northern Syria, killing at more than 80 people, official sources and opposition activists say.

Cairo- Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar University and one of the most prestigious seats of learning in the Muslim world asked the Iranian Foreign Minister to provide Sunni Muslims full rights in Iran.

A report by the opposition said rebels had been attacking the Muleiha base with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars for five days, and the army had fired over 600 rockets on the town in response.