The U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria is to arrive in Damascus on Monday as part of a tour aimed at garnering support for proposed peace talks, a government source said.

"Lakhdar Brahimi should be arriving on Monday to discuss preparations for Geneva 2," the source told AFP on condition of anonymity in reference to the talks.

Germany has warned Israel to attend a periodic U.N. human rights review on Tuesday or face "severe diplomatic damage", Haaretz newspaper reported on Sunday.

Israel cut all ties with the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council in March 2012, after it announced it would probe how Israeli settlements may be infringing on the rights of Palestinians.

A top commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said his forces killed three rebels and arrested three others in a western region that borders Iraqi Kurdistan, media reported on Sunday.

"During clashes that took place Friday in the Baneh region, three members of a terrorist group were killed and two others were arrested," Mehr news agency quoted Brigadier General Mohammad Hassan Rajabi as saying.

Nineteen Islamist groups fighting to topple President Bashar Assad have rejected outright a mooted U.S.-Russian peace initiative for Syria dubbed Geneva 2, a statement said.

"We announce that the Geneva 2 conference is not, nor will it ever be our people's choice or our revolution's demand," the groups said in a late Saturday statement read in an online video by Ahmad Eissa al-Sheikh, chief of the Suqur al-Sham chief.

Ten bombings mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad province killed at least 41 people on Sunday, while 24 died in other attacks in Iraq, officials said.

The attacks are the latest in a surge in violence that has killed over 650 people so far this month, and more than 5,350 this year.

A Cairo court Saturday threw out a lawsuit against Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohammed ElBaradei over his resignation as Egyptian vice president in protest at a bloody crackdown on Islamists.

A lawyer filed the suit in August against ElBaradei, who left Egypt after resigning, accusing him of having betrayed the trust of the opposition National Salvation Front which he represented.

Tunisia's ruling Islamists were due to hold a second day of talks Saturday with the opposition on resolving a crippling political crisis that erupted when suspected jihadists killed an opposition MP three months ago.

The much-delayed national dialogue began on Friday after Prime Minister Ali Larayedh made a written commitment to resign and make way for a cabinet of independents headed by a new premier who is to be named within a week.

Attacks in Iraq killed 10 people on Saturday, seven of them from the same family, security and medical officials said.

In the Dura area of southern Baghdad, gunmen armed with silenced weapons shot dead a father, mother, four sons and the wife of one of them at their home, the officials said.

The Palestinians denied Saturday that a mooted Israeli release of Palestinian prisoners is part of understandings in peace talks under which Israel would be allowed to build more settlements in exchange.

The media said this week that Israeli ministers were to meet Sunday to approve the release of a second batch of Palestinian prisoners under the terms of the renewed peace talks.

A bomb exploded Saturday in the car of an electoral official in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi causing damage but no casualties, an official said.

"The car that blew up belongs to Idriss al-Ghadi, an official with the municipal elections committee," said the official who declined to be named.