Brahimi’s mission to Syria will fail: FSA

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (C-R) and his government cabinet (R) meet with his Sudanese counterpart Omar Al-Bashir and his cabinet at the presidential palace in Cairo, Sunday.

Syrian civilians, who have fled clashes between Syrian rebels and regime forces in the outskirts of Damascus and the central city of Homs, stand behind a fence at a school where they have taken shelter in the neighborhood of Mazzeh in the Syrian capital, Sunday.

The last major group of Iranian exiles has relocated from their long-time base to a new site near Baghdad as part of a process that aims to see them resettled outside Iraq, the United Nations said Sunday.

Three Yemeni soldiers were killed and six others wounded in a roadside bombing that targeted the convoy of a security chief in the southeastern city of Mukalla Sunday, a security official and witnesses said.

Libya’s parliament chief announced in an interview with CBS News Sunday the arrests of some 50 people over the killing of US Ambassador Chris Stevens in an attack he said was planned by foreigners.

Militants attacked a security building in Egypt’s Sinai Sunday sparking clashes, while three policemen were wounded in separate fighting in the area, security officials said.

An Omani court sentenced a blogger to one year in jail for slander over writings against the government, news agency ONA said Sunday.