Iraq's Communications and Media Commission has suspended the licenses of 10 television channels, including Al Jazeera, for allegedly promoting violence and sectarianism, a senior CMC official said April 28, Al Jazeera reported.

The Israeli air force launched a strike against a terror facility and weapons storage site in southern Gaza on April 28 in response to overnight rocket fire on the Sdot Negev Regional Council, The Jerusalem Post reported.

At least 200 gunmen allegedly armed with AK-47s and sniper rifles have surrounded the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli to demand that officials who worked for ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi be banned from senior positions in the new government, witnesses and a military official said April 28, Al Jazeera reported.

Rebels attacked the Abu Zuhour air base in northwestern Idlib province April 27, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, AP reported.

The military intelligence chief for Yemen's Hadramawt province, Col. Ahmed Abdulrazzaq, was shot and killed April 27 by suspected Islamist militants on a motorbike, a security official said, Reuters reported.

Recent violence in Sunni provinces is a sign that sectarian strife is returning to Iraq assisted by "foreign plots," Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said April 27 at the International Islamic Conference for Convergence and Dialogue in Baghdad, Xinhua reported.

A bomb detonated outside a police station around 6 a.m. April 27 in Benghazi, extensively damaging the building but causing no injuries, Reuters reported.

Iraqi security forces moved back into the town of Sulaiman Bek, in Salah ad Din province, on April 26 after gunmen who seized it April 24 made an agreed-upon withdrawal, officials said, AFP reported.