An Emirati campaign to raise funds for Syrian refugees faced with harsh winter conditions in camps in neighboring states has raised almost $28 million, the Red Crescent announced Saturday.

Red Crescent chief Mohammed Atiq, quoted by state news agency WAM, said a Friday-Saturday telethon organized by local television collected 102 million dirhams ($27.8 million).

Libyan Oil Minister Abdelbari al-Arusi on Saturday issued a renewed threat of force to lift a months-long blockade of oil terminals by striking autonomists.

"The government is making every effort to hold talks with those blockading the terminals," he told journalists on the sidelines of a conference in Doha of the Organisation of Arab Oil Exporting Countries.

Several cities in south Yemen were virtually paralyzed Saturday as an armed clash between southern militants and security forces wounded six people, witnesses and police said.

Schools and public offices were closed and shops shuttered on the second day of a protest movement over the killing of a tribal chief in a confrontation with the army.

Syrian security forces detained another member of the regime-tolerated opposition on Saturday, his party said, accusing the authorities of trying to "terrorize" the group into silence.

"This morning (Saturday), Monzer Khaddam, a member of the National Coordination Body's executive bureau and head of its media office, was detained at a military security checkpoint while he was on a bus... en route to a meeting of the executive bureau," the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change (NCBDC) said.

Syrian regime forces are raining death on Aleppo, killing hundreds of people in air strikes that were either "criminally" indiscriminate or "deliberately" aimed at civilians, a rights group said Saturday.

"Government forces have really been wreaking disaster on Aleppo in the last month, killing men, women, and children alike," said Ole Solvang, senior emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch.

Five senior Iraqi officers, including a divisional commander, and 10 soldiers were killed Saturday in a raid on an al-Qaida hideout in the west of the country, military officers said.

Violence elsewhere killed five policemen, including the police chief of Al-Sharqat district northwest of Baghdad, and wounded five others, police and a doctor said.

Egypt's deposed President Mohammed Morsi and 132 others, including members of Hamas, will stand trial for a prison break and the murder of officers during the 2011 uprising, the prosecution said on Saturday.

Almost 70 of the defendants are members of Hamas and Hizbullah, the Palestinian and Lebanese groups, who will be tried in absentia.

Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a Palestinian man in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, sources on both side of the border said.

Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for the emergency services in the Islamist Hamas-run enclave, told AFP the 22-year-old was hit by a bullet east of Khan Yunis and moderately wounded.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi discussed the Syria crisis after negotiators failed to agree on Tehran's role in upcoming talks, the ministry said Saturday.

Zarif and Brahimi talked by phone "about the latest on the Geneva 2 conference" -- a Russian-U.S. initiated forum scheduled for January 22 seeking to end the civil war in Syria, the foreign ministry website said.

The sons of two Turkish ministers were charged on Saturday in a huge graft scandal that has ensnared the closest allies of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The scandal is the largest ever to come close to Erdogan, who has led Turkey since 2002 as the head of a conservative Islamic-leaning government.