Nearly 200 African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally demonstrated Tuesday in Jerusalem against being housed at a brand-new open facility they walked out of two days earlier.

The men had left the Holot facility in southern Israel on Sunday night and made their way to the snow-struck city on foot and by bus.

An Egyptian court will try 23 Islamists under a newly passed law banning unauthorized demonstrations, a judicial source said Tuesday.

Supporters of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, ousted and arrested by the military in July, regularly hold demonstrations around the country calling for his return.

The two main Syrian Kurdish groups held talks in Iraq on Tuesday, aiming to establish a unified front ahead of a peace conference in Switzerland next month, an official said.

The People's Council of Western Kurdistan (PCWK) and the Kurdish National Council (KNC) have been at odds since last month when the former announced a transitional autonomous administration for Kurdish-majority areas of northeastern and northwestern Syria without the latter's backing.

The UAE's state security court said Tuesday it will announce next month its verdict in the trial of 30 Emiratis and Egyptians charged with forming a Muslim Brotherhood cell.

The verdict will be issued in a hearing on January 21, the court decided in a session attended by 15 of the defendants, WAM state news agency reported.

A British surgeon imprisoned in war-torn Syria for over a year after volunteering to work in a hospital has died in detention, his family and a lawmaker said on Tuesday.

Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old orthopedic surgeon from south London, traveled to the northern city of Aleppo -- the scene of particularly fierce fighting -- last year to help treat civilians.

Two Saudi inmates from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have arrived in their home country following a U.S. transfer, authorities in Riyadh said on Tuesday.

Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdulla Hamood al-Enzi will go through a Saudi rehabilitation process, known as the Counselling Programme, interior ministry spokesman General Mansur al-Turki said.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday "it is possible" the United States would meet with a newly formed Syrian rebel alliance that wants to replace the regime with an Islamic state.

"The United States has not met yet to date with the Islamic Front. There has not been a discussion," he told a news conference while visiting the Philippines.

Militants killed at least eight Shiite pilgrims in and around Baghdad on Tuesday, after car bombs targeted others the day before, Iraqi security officials said.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives among pilgrims walking south of Baghdad, killing four, while militants in a car threw hand grenades at pilgrims in the capital, killing at least four others.

The world's chemical watchdog was meeting Tuesday to agree exactly how Syria's arsenal will be destroyed outside the country, with the plan facing potential delays.

The hectic pace of the U.N.-backed plan to rid Syria of its entire chemical weapons stockpile by mid-2014 has slowed recently amid security problems in the war-ravaged country.

Two Syrian refugee children and their father died of their injuries on Tuesday after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in their tent in a camp in Jordan, officials said.

The explosion happened in the Zaatari camp, 10 kilometers (six miles) east of the northern city of Mafraq, which is home to more than 100,000 refugees, a security official said.