LIVE BLOG: The Middle East as it happens
- Kurdistan Regional Government unanimously votes to send fighters, weapons into Syria's Kobane
- Baby killed, eight wounded when driver hits pedestrians in Jerusalem. Israeli police are calling the incident a 'terror attack'; Ma'an News says Palestinian driver lost control of car.
- Explosion reported outside of Egypt's Cairo University
- Two Israeli soldiers reportedly injured as Israeli army begins on Tuesday to deploy troops on the Israel-Egypt border.
- Six Jordanian opposition parties call for their government to withdraw from the US-led coalition battling the Islamic State militant group
Live Updates
Bahraini activists are protesting outside the Savoy Hotel in central London, where they believe Prince Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa is staying on a visit to the UK.
Nasser, son of Bahrain's king, recently had his immunity from prosecution removed, after it was alleged he tortured political prisoners in the Gulf State.
It is unclear if UK authorities have granted Prince Nasser special mission status, which would mean police are unable to execute a warrant for his arrest - that's if a warrant has been issued.
Security sources have told Reuters three members of Egypt's security forces have been killed in an attack near al-Arish, in the north Sinai peninsula.
Armed men shot at security forces manning a checkpoint in the town close to Egypt's border with Gaza. It is not known at this stage if the three killed were soldiers or police.
The latest attack came just hours after a huge car bomb in the same area killed at least 26 soldiers and wounded 25 others, in the deadliest day of violence in the restive peninsula for years.
President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has called an emergency defence meeting and authorities have cut all communications in the Sinai Peninsula.
Reuters are reporting a new attack in the North Sinai Peninsula has killed at least three Egyptian soldiers.
An earlier attack killed at least 26 soldiers and injured 25 others, according to security sources, in the deadliest day of violence in Egypt's Sinai for years.
More to follow.
The Turkish Anadolu Agency (AA) says no Egyptian soldiers have been kidnapped in the Sinai Peninsula, as earlier reported on social media sites.
AA cited an unnamed source as having told them the news, after security officials earlier said they were looking into the reports.
26 soldiers are now confirmed dead after a suicide car bomb targeted a military checkpoint in a north Sinai town close to the border with Gaza.
Egypt's army are looking into reports three soldiers were kidnapped when a suicide car bomber struck a military checkpoint in the North Sinai on Friday.
The attack killed at least 25 soldiers and injured 26 others - clashes are said to be ongoing between militants and soldiers near the town of al-Arish close to the Gaza border.
President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has called an emergency defence meeting in response to the deadliest attack in Egypt since 25 soldiers were killed by militants in near the border town of Rafah in 2012.
More to follow.
A suicide attack on a military checkpoint in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula Wednesday has killed at least twenty-five soldiers and injured twenty-six others, according to security sources.
It is the deadliest attack on Egyptian troops since twenty-five were killed near the border town of Rafah in August 2013.
A Sky News Arabia correspondent has reported 5 dead and 11 injured in explosion at a military point in south Sheikh Zuwaid in north Sinai, Egypt
Three Al Jazeera journalists have now spent 300 days in a Cairo prison, after a trial Human Rights Watch have dubbed a "miscarriage of justice."
Baher Mohammed, an Egyptian citizen, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in June.
Peter Greste, an Australian, and Al Jazeera English bureau chief Mohammed Fahmy, a dual Canadian-Egyptian citizen, were both handed down seven-year sentences.
Charges included editing video footage to "give the appearance that Egypt is in a civil war", and supporting a "terrorist organisation."
The Muslim Brotherhood were declared a terrorist organisation by Egyptian authorities in December 2013.
Al Jazeera have mobilised support for the journalists under the hashtag #FreeAJStaff.
Canada’s consulate in Istanbul has called in Turkish investigators to check a suspicious package which arrived at the building on Friday.
Security officials at the consulate in the Levent district notified the Turkish authorities after a letter containing an unknown yellow substance was detected.
A statement from the Turkish Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency said a chemical, radiology and nuclear team was dispatched to the scene to inspect the package.
“The air conditioning system was immediately shut down and people who were exposed to the package were kept in the room as a precaution.”
According to information from the Canadian consulate, one person came directly into contact with the suspicious package and six other people had indirect exposure.
The scare comes amid heightened security within Canada, after a lone gunman shot and killed a guard at Canada’s parliament building, attempting to open fire inside the building.