Nine Iraqi policemen were killed May 3 in fighting in Mosul, AFP reported.

The Syrian opposition on May 3 denounced what it called a large-scale massacre it said was carried out by regime forces in Bayda, a Sunni village outside the port of Banias, AFP reported.

Two senior Chadian generals and a member of parliament allied with President Idriss Deby were arrested May 2 for alleged involvement in a foiled coup plot on May 1, a government prosecutor said, Reuters reported.

The White House is rethinking its opposition to arming Syrian rebels, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said at a news conference with British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond on May 2, AP reported.

Police in Athens on May 2 stopped a group from the far-right Golden Dawn party from giving out free food to residents on Syntagma Square, where the Greek Parliament is located, the BBC reported.

Eight Afghan policemen were killed May 2 when an improvised explosive device placed by Taliban fighters detonated alongside a road outside Kabul, officials said, AFP reported.

One Afghan border guard was killed and two Pakistani troops were injured in cross-border shelling overnight May 1, sources said May 2, AFP and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.