Iran's President Hassan Rouhani warned on Sunday that Muslim states which funnel petrodollars to jihadist Sunni fighters wreaking havoc in Iraq will become their next target.

Rouhani did not name any country, but officials and media in mainly Shiite Iran have hinted that insurgents from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are being financially and militarily supported by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Al-Qaida gunmen have killed two people in southeast Yemen because they believed they were practicing witchcraft and sorcery, which are forbidden under Islam, a security official told Agence France Presse on Sunday.

The killings took place late on Saturday in the town of Shehr in Hadramawt province, the official said.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Egypt's former military leaders Sunday to allow greater political freedoms, warning the nation faced a "critical moment," as he arrived on a surprise visit.

Kerry became the highest-ranking U.S. official to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi since he came to power earlier this month, as part of a rocky transition to democracy since the ousting of long-time leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011. 

The teenage son of an Israeli defense ministry contractor was killed on the Golan Sunday in the most serious incident on the plateau since the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011.

Israel's defense ministry and the army said the 15-year-old was killed when a blast hit the car he was traveling in with his father and another contractor, both of whom were wounded.

Seventeen Yemeni policemen were wounded in an ambush by Shiite Huthis as fighting between government forces and the rebels neared the capital, officials said on Sunday.

The Huthis -- also known as Ansarullah -- have advanced out of their northern mountain strongholds towards Sanaa in a suspected attempt to expand their sphere of influence as Yemen is reorganized into six regions.

Sunni militants advanced through west Iraq after seizing a strategic Syria border crossing, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in the region Sunday aiming to bridge widening rifts.

The latest assaults saw the security forces making "tactical" withdrawals in the face of an insurgent onslaught that has displaced hundreds of thousands and alarmed the world amid fears Iraq could tear itself apart.

Israel's foreign minister said Sunday a final decision has yet to be made on his threat to expel the U.N.'s peace envoy for offering to help transfer Qatari funds to Gaza.

Avigdor Lieberman was reported to have said by Channel Two television that he wants to declare Robert Serry persona non grata and expel him from Israel over the alleged offer.

On a dusty patch of land off a highway in northern Iraq, Faisal watches his three-week-old son cry in the tent that is now his home.

The temperature hovers around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), and aid being distributed to those at the camp, including mattresses and fans, has yet to reach Faisal's tent.

Counting was underway in Mauritania's presidential election on Sunday with incumbent Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz expected to win handily after his main rivals boycotted a process they regard as a sham.

The former general, who seized power in the northwest African nation in an August 2008 coup, campaigned strongly on his success in fighting armed groups linked to al-Qaida at home and in neighboring Sahel nations.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry headed to the Middle East Sunday seeking to overcome the sectarian divide in Iraq where Sunni militants seized more ground in an offensive that could rip the country apart.

Shiite fighters paraded in Baghdad on Saturday in a dramatic show of force aimed at their Sunni opponents who took control of a Syrian border crossing.