A Saudi woman who tried to drive into the kingdom in defiance of a ban was arrested Monday after being blocked at the UAE border for a day, activists said.

Conservative Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world which does not allow women to drive.

A double car bomb attack wounded three policemen Monday in the same Libyan town where an anti-Islamist army commander was murdered last week, a security source said.

The source said the officers were hurt when two vehicles exploded in the car park of the police station in the eastern town of Ajdabiya.

At least 16 Iraqi border guards were killed Monday in a dawn assault by the Islamic State jihadist group on their post near the Syrian frontier, provincial and security officials said.

"Sixteen border guards, including a captain, were killed and four wounded in an attack targeting their headquarters in Al-Walid, near the Syrian border," Faleh al-Issawi, deputy head of Anbar provincial council, told AFP.

A Bahraini court on Monday sentenced in absentia prominent rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja to a year in jail for assaulting police officers, her lawyer said.

Mohammed al-Jishy told AFP the verdict was announced in the absence of Khawaja, who said on Sunday she would not attend the hearing because it was "impossible to have a fair and independent trial" in the Gulf kingdom.

Foul weather in Morocco has killed up to seven people a week after a previous storm left 36 dead, media reports said on Monday.

Storms again lashed the south of the kingdom, with the resort of Agadir experiencing the equivalent of an entire year's rainfall -- more than 250 millimeters (10 inches) -- between Friday and Sunday.

A Saudi court has jailed 45 people including government officials in connection with deadly flooding five years ago in Jeddah, reports said Monday.

The 2009 floods killed 123 people, left thousands homeless and provoked unprecedented outrage in the kingdom's second-largest city.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt will never return to the corrupt ways of the past, after a court dismissed murder charges against former leader Hosni Mubarak.

"The new Egypt, which emerged from the January 25 (2011) and June 30 (2003) revolutions, is on a path to establish a modern democratic state based on justice, freedom, equality and a renunciation of corruption," he said in a statement late Sunday.

"Terrorists" in Tunisia have abducted and decapitated an off-duty policeman, media reports on Monday cited the interior ministry as saying.

The officer and his brother were in a car in the Kef area of the northwest when gunmen seeking to rob them immobilized the vehicle.

A Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli civilian in a Jewish settlement bloc in the southern West Bank on Monday and was then shot and wounded by the Israeli army, the military said.

The attack was the first by a Palestinian woman in a wave of unrest in Israel and the occupied territories, and comes as tensions run high particularly in Jerusalem and nearby areas of the West Bank.

Islamic State group jihadists battling for control of the Syrian town of Kobane suffered some of their heaviest losses yet in 24 hours of clashes and U.S.-led air strikes, monitors said Sunday.

At least 50 jihadists were killed in the embattled border town in suicide bombings, clashes with Kobane's Kurdish defenders and air strikes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.