Egypt's army has plans to push Mohamed Mursi aside and suspend the constitution after an all but impossible ultimatum it has given the Islamist president expires in less than 24 hours.
Seven people were killed and 72 others injured on Tuesday in clashes between Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's opponents and proponents in Giza governorate, southwest of Cairo.
At least 35 people were killed and 151 others wounded on Tuesday in a wave of violent attacks across Iraq -- most of them in the capital city of Baghdad, the police said.
At least 26 people were killed and 102 others wounded in a wave of bombings in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Tuesday, the police said.
President Mohamed Mursi rebuffed an army ultimatum to force a resolution to Egypt's political crisis, saying on Tuesday that he had not been consulted and would pursue his own plans for national reconciliation.
Egypt's armed forces handed Mohamed Mursi a virtual ultimatum to share power on Monday, giving feuding politicians 48 hours to compromise or have the army impose its own road map for the country.
Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi on Monday unleashed a barrage of criticism against the rules of the Muslim Brotherhood in the region, namely in Turkey and Egypt, saying such rules have failed to lead their countries.
An explosion went off in Charikar, the capital city of eastern Afghan province of Parwan on Monday morning with feared casualties.
Twenty-two militants have been killed during military operations in different Afghan provinces within the last 24 hours.
At least four people were killed in Egypt and nearly 200 wounded on Sunday in clashes between supporters and opponents of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, security and medical sources said.
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi knows he has made mistakes and is working to fix them, a spokesman for the Egyptian leader said on Sunday.
A bomb planted near a yard where people were playing soccer in Iraq killed 12 people on Sunday, police and medics said.