United States Secretary of State John Kerry and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced support for the Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in talks in Cairo.

Algeria, Morocco and Egypt condemned the cowardly terrorist attack of last Wednesday, which killed 15 and wounded 23 in the ranks of the Tunisian army, expressing their solidarity with the Tunisian government and people in this ordeal.

Syrian government forces have launched a counter-attack to recapture a gas field seized by hard-line extremists, activists said Saturday, as the death toll from three days of fighting there rose to more than 200 people killed.