A Lebanese citizen was executed by militants from the "Islamic State" on Thursday, around a week after they beheaded a Lebanese army sergeant in the Bekaa border town of Arsal, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.
Iran denied on Sunday reports alleging the Islamic republic sent troops to Iraq to fight insurgents from the Islamic State group, while calling for regional and global cooperation to eliminate the extremist Sunni militant group that has seized and now rules large areas of Iraq and Syria.
The Syrian troops evacuated their positions at the al-Tabaqa airbase in northern province of al- Raqqa on Sunday after intense battles with the Islamic State (IS) militants, who have succeeded in capturing the facility, state-run media said.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Baghdad on an official visit to meet with the Iraqi leaders to discuss the bilateral relations and latest political and security development in Iraq, an official television reported on Sunday.
Iran has denied linking any future cooperation with the United States against terrorists in Iraq to the removal of western sanctions, Tasnim news agency reported on Friday.
Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi on Monday denounced "the crimes against humanity" committed by Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, demanding that all the perpetrators face international justice.
Turkey's National Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz on Saturday denied any involvement in the US air strikes in Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) sites in northern Iraq, local Daily News reported.