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A series of car bombs struck predominantly Shi’ite areas of Iraq on April 29, killing at least 36.
Police say 18 people were killed and 42 wounded by two car bombs in the southeastern city of Amarah.
Another car bomb in Diywaniya killed nine people and wounded 23.
Israeli warplanes launched three strikes early on Sunday on the Gaza Strip, targeting radical Palestinian group Islamic Jihad but causing no casualties, witnesses said.
Two air strikes hit the southern town of Khan Yunis, targeting positions of the Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad. The third was near the southern town of Rafah straddling the border with Egypt, the Palestinian witnesses said.
New heavy clashes in Damascus between rebels and government forces that seek to reject the slow advance of rebels toward Abbasidi square, in north-est of the city.
Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen fought fierce battles with rebels on Saturday in a strategic area in Homs province near the Lebanese border, activists and state media in Damascus reported.
The latest fighting came as U.S. officials said the Obama administration was poised to send millions more in non-lethal military aid to rebels trying to oust President Bashar Assad.
Syrian opposition captured a military airport in the city of Homs, Al Jazeera TV channel reported on Thursday.
According to the TV channel, after fighting between the Syrian army and the opposition military airport Daba is completely under the control of the opposition.