As PKK militia beat back ISIS at Kobani, the Syrian opposition increasingly looks to Turkey's President Erdogan as an ally against Bashar Assad. Yet another betrayal of the Kurds?
Turkish fighter jets carried out air-strikes on supposed PKK positions near the Iraqi border, with Ankara claiming Kurdish militants attacked a military base in the area.
As Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a border attack that wounded two Israeli soldiers, the US threatened to cut off military aid to Lebanon if it accepts arms from Iran.
Amnesty International charges that Saudi Arabia is persecuting activists and government critics, especially targeting the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association.
Rights activist Nabeel Rajab faces criminal charges over his tweets that claimed Bahrain's security institutions were the first incubators for extremist ideology.
With desperate street-to-street fighting underway in Kobani between ISIS and Kurdish militia, nearly 30 have been killed in Kurdish protests across Turkey.
As ISIS forces penetrated Kobani, Kurds across Turkey took to the streets in angry protests at Ankara's inaction, leaving several dead in street clashes.
Members of Syria's Alawite sect took to the streets of Homs to protest a deadly car bomb attack on an elementary school, for the first time taking up anti-regime slogans.
As the US struck both ISIS and Nusra Front positions in Syria, Israel shot down a Syrian fighter plane it said had violated its airspace over the Golan Heights.
Rights lawyer and former presidential candidate Khaled Ali joined a hunger strike by dozens of Egyptians to demand the release of activists detained under the new anti-protest law.
Independent UN rights experts called on the government of Bahrain to release detained human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja due to the absence of evidence against her.
Saudi Arabia carried out a sweep of suspected terrorists as ISIS threatened to take Mecca and destroy the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, calling it a bastion of idolatry.
