More than 1,000 Iraqis have been killed in July, the highest monthly death toll since 2008.
Protesters inspired by the rebel protests in Egypt last month have called for rallies on Wednesday
Sources say Saudi Arabia wants Moscow to ease its strong support of Assad and agree not to block any future Security Council Resolution on Syria.
Acting President Adli Mansour, in a message on the eve of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, said Egypt was in critical circumstances.
Prince Salman bin Sultan is a son of the late Crown Prince Sultan, a veteran defence minister until his death in 2011.
France’s 2004 ban on headscarves in schools and 2010 ban on full face veils in public have alienated many of its five million Muslims.
Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s plane was barred from entering the Kingdom’s airspace this week while on a flight to Iran.
It was not clear whether Bashir was on his way to the inauguration of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
The July 27 parliamentary election brought in an assembly seen as more amenable to the government.
The tiny state provided much of the armed muscle behind the Arab rebellions.
A protest movement in Bahrain has called for rallies on August 14.
Dozens of Kuwaitis have been charged with insulting Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, especially online.
Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah has been asked to form his new cabinet.
Bahrain’s lawmakers agreed to proposals including stripping those who commit or call for ‘terrorism crimes’ of their nationality.
The mainly Islamist opposition boycotted the poll in protest against a new voting system announced last year.
The parliamentary election was boycotted by the main Islamist opposition.
The Gulf state is holding a snap parliamentary election on July 27.
No injuries have been reported and an investigation is underway.
At least nine people have died in clashes between supporters and opponents of ousted president Mohamed Mursi.
According to reports, those pardoned include 14 people serving prison sentences ranging from 30 months to five years.
Hazem el-Beblawi, an international liberal economist, called for dialogue between political parties, adding that security had to be restored to Egypt’s streets after weeks of mass protests.
The armed forces chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, was given the post of first deputy to interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi.
No one was hurt in the dawn attack on the home of Abbas Isa al-Madi, chairman of parliament’s Services Committee.
Almost constant factional infighting over the past seven years has prompted repeated elections in Kuwait.
Egypt’s first freely elected leader has been held at an undisclosed location since the army removed him from power on July 3.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have offered Egypt $8 billion in grants and loans, while Kuwait has pledged a further $4 billion.
A bunch of kids in T-shirts changed the course of the Arab world’s most populous nation by mobilising mass protests against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood.
Following the ascension of Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who will join him in the future in leading the Gulf states?
The phone calls from the US president came on a day when the UAE and Saudi offered $8 billion in aid to Cairo.
Interim leader Adli Mansour has decreed that a parliamentary vote will be held in about six months, followed by a presidential election.