DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrian officials attended the funeral on Sunday of a senior security officer whose killing has shaken the tightly controlled country.

RAMALLAH (Reuters) – Israel freed a former Hamas minister from prison on Sunday, an official from the Islamist group said.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani security forces killed 10 Islamist militants and destroyed several hideouts in a clash in the troubled northwestern Swat valley on Sunday, the military said.

(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 1330 GMT on Sunday. * denotes a new or updated item.

TIZI OUZOU, Algeria (Reuters) – A car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of Algiers on Sunday, wounding 25 people including four policemen, the government of the OPEC member country said.

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Pakistan’s prime minister said there was no evidence linking his country to attacks on India, adding such accusations had hurt the peace process, a report said on Sunday.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish troops have killed eight Kurdish guerrillas in a fire fight in southeast Turkey, bringing the total death toll in a two-day clash to 13, military headquarters said on Sunday.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in India on Sunday to cement ties with New Delhi, just weeks after a suicide bombing at the Indian embassy in Kabul underscored the security tensions in the region.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – A senior Syrian officer was shot dead in mysterious circumstances in northern Syria last week, Arab media reports said on Sunday.

GAZA (Reuters) – About 30 pro-Fatah Palestinians who fled to Israel after fierce clashes in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip were sent back to the coastal enclave on Sunday and were immediately detained by the Islamist group’s security forces.