1. Reports say hundreds of people are killed in Nigeria army’s raids on supporters of the country’s Shia Muslim leader Ibrahim Zakzaky.
2. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has expressed deep concerns over the Nigerian army's deadly attack against Shia Muslims.
3. Iran has criticized the recent approval of a bill in the US House of Representatives on tightening visa-free travel to the United States.
4. A former Gitmo inmate has called for transparency over Britain’s role in the US rendition program.
5. Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian in East Jerusalem al-Quds. Israelis claim he rammed his vehicle into pedestrians.
6. Turkey is reportedly withdrawing a number of its troops from northern Iraq as part of a rearrangement plan.
7. A Turkish opposition lawmaker says the ISIL terrorists in Syria received all the necessary materials to produce the deadly sarin gas via Turkey.
8. Yemen's former regime confirms that a UN-brokered ceasefire will go into force at Monday midnight.