Syria's main opposition group has postponed internal meetings to early November as it faces international pressure to attend peace talks with President Bashar Assad's regime, a member told Agence France Presse Monday.

"Our political committee and general assembly meetings in Istanbul have been postponed till the start of November," said National Coalition member Samir Nashar.

Amnesty International on Monday said Saudi Arabia had failed to act on U.N. recommendations and "ratcheted up the repression" since 2009, with the arbitrary detention and torture of activists.

The London-based watchdog's statement was released ahead of a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva on Monday to discuss the oil-rich kingdom's record, and comes after Riyadh rejected a seat on the U.N. Security Council, citing the international body's "double standards" and inability to resolve regional conflicts.

Bloody clashes erupted between police and pro-independence protesters in Western Sahara, a human rights group said Monday, as the U.N. envoy wrapped up his latest visit to the disputed territory.

Dozens of civilians required hospital treatment, including women and children, after police moved to break up a "peaceful protest" in the territory's main city Laayoune on Saturday, the Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) said.

The military wing of Gaza's ruling Hamas said on Monday that it masterminded what Israel called a "terror tunnel" from Gaza into the Jewish state, meant to kidnap Israeli soldiers.

"This tunnel was made by the hand of the fighters of (Izzadine) al-Qassam and they will not sleep in their efforts to hit the occupation and kidnap soldiers," the group's spokesman Abu Obeida told Hamas' al-Aqsa radio.

Police were hunting Monday for those behind a shooting spree at a church wedding that killed four people, in the first attack targeting Christians in Cairo since the ouster of Egypt's Islamist president.

An eight-year-old girl was among those shot dead at the Church of the Virgin in Cairo's working class neighborhood of Al-Warrak, while 17 others were wounded in the late Sunday attack, officials said.

A Libyan security chief accused of involvement in Prime Minister Ali Zeidan's abduction 10 days ago said Sunday he was behind the "arrest" and that he was "proud" of it.

Gunmen seized Zeidan from a Tripoli hotel on October 10, before he was released and appeared on television hours later to accuse a political party of being behind the attempted "coup".

A roadside blast followed by a suicide bombing at a cafe in the Iraqi capital killed at least 34 people on Sunday, security and medical officials said.

The blasts in the Shiite-majority area of Al-Amil in south Baghdad also wounded at least 50 people, the officials said.

Dozens of Egyptian truck drivers were freed on Sunday after being abducted by a Libyan armed group pressing for the release of Libyans detained in Egypt, a security source said.

"The drivers who were held by armed men in Ajdabiya (in eastern Libya) were released by their captors," the source told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be meeting with Pope Francis in three days, a diplomatic source said Sunday, after the premier's office had previously said they would.

A statement from Netanyahu's office had said the premier would be "meeting Pope Francis next Wednesday at the Vatican" and with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for updates on nuclear talks with Iran and negotiations with the Palestinians in Rome.

Egyptian police fired teargas at Islamist students who pelted them with rocks during an anti-army protest in Cairo's Al-Azhar university on Sunday, an Agence France Presse reporter and the interior ministry said.

About 3,000 students initially blocked the main Nasr road leading to the Islamic university's campus, and clashed with police who arrived to persuade them to leave, the ministry said in a statement.