Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh said the militant groups Islamic State and al Qaeda were “enemy number one of Islam”.
U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq have helped Kurdish fighters take back some territory captured by Islamic State militants.
The US Federal Aviation Administration said the move was taken after “updated assessment of risk” and a lack of airlines wishing to fly in the airspace.
State news agency IRNA said the quake was magnitude 6.1 while the US Geological Survey put it at 6.3.
The Kingdom’s benchmark rose for the 13th time in 15 sessions on Sunday to reach a new six-year peak.
A Libyan TV channel said planes targeted positions in Tripoli where militias have been fighting for control for over one month.
Yukiya Amano’s trip comes ahead of an August 25 deadline for Iran to provide information to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The radical Islamist movement that has seized territory in Iraq and Syria is a growing “monster”, said Hezbollah’s chief, Hassan Nasrallah.
The Islamic State is well-resourced, with young volunteers, cash to buy weapons and pay wages, plus an arsenal of weapons it captured from the Iraqi army in June.
Health ministers from the six Gulf states have chalked out a common strategy to defend the region from the deadly virus.
Saudi Arabia’s upcoming Kingdom Tower, estimated to rise over a 1000 metres in height when ready, tops the list.
A halt in more than a month of fighting, in which 1,945 Palestinians and 67 Israelis have been killed, had been set to expire at midnight on Wednesday.
Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for complicity in the deaths of demonstrators, but an appeals court subsequently ordered a retrial.
They were killed when unexploded munitions blew up in the town of Beit Lahiya.
Oman’s foreign minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah said that the recent dialogue between Qatar’s emir and Saudi’s King Abdullah has been effective in easing the rift.
In a message sent to Haider al-Abadi, King Abdullah wished him success in “in restoring cohesion” among the Iraqi people.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal also called for support from Egypt to end the fighting.
Egypt’s government said the report was “characterised by negativity and bias” and relied on anonymous witnesses rather than neutral sources.
The UAE had 439 international schools in the second quarter of 2014- the highest number of international schools in the region- up from 433 in the first quarter.
The independent team will investigate “all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law” by both sides.
Lufthansa also said that the airlines within its group would continue to avoid Iraqi airspace on transit flights.
The car maker delivered 1,185 cars in the Middle East during the first half of the year.
Bahrain’s Gulf Air tops the list of the most punctual regional airlines in 2013, as compiled by Flight Stats.
Opinion polls put Erdogan, 60, far ahead of two rivals competing for a five-year term as president.
Iraq’s human rights minister said some 300 women were also kidnapped as slaves.
The tribunal ruled a 25-year contract for National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC) to supply gas to Crescent was valid and binding on both parties.
Etihad’s flights to Basra and Baghdad will continue to operate as normal, the carrier said.
The Taqa-operated plant is expected to initially produce approximately 30,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) with first oil expected by early 2015.
In Khuzaa, people say at least 70 were killed and more bodies may lie beneath the rubble.
Efforts to turn the ceasefire into a lasting truce could prove difficult.