Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recovering on Sunday after a hernia operation overnight in a Jerusalem hospital, his office said in a statement.

Surgery, at the prestigious Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital, was successful and lasted about an hour, it added.

The United States condemned the perpetrators of deadly attacks in Iraq Saturday as "enemies of Islam," in an unusually detailed statement following the latest violence in the war-ravaged country.

The State Department said the car bombs that tore through Baghdad cafes and markets, as well as other blasts and shootings elsewhere, were "cowardly" attacks "aimed at families celebrating the Eid al-Fitr" holiday that marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

A drone strike on Yemen, the ninth since the end of July, has killed two suspected al-Qaida members, a local official said on Saturday..

Friday's attack in the southern province of Lahij targeted a car, wounding two other people while a fourth one escaped unharmed, the official said on condition of anonymity.

Six illegal migrants drowned Saturday off a tourist beach in Sicily after their boat carrying nearly 100 people, mostly Syrians, went aground in the latest attempt by desperate immigrants to reach Europe.

"We were alerted just after 5:30 am (0330 GMT) that a boat had run aground across from a beach resort" near the island's second largest city Catania, said the spokesman for the port authority Roberto D'Arrigo.

Car bombs targeting cafes and markets in Baghdad were among nationwide attacks that killed 60 people on Saturday as Iraqis marked the end of their bloodiest Ramadan in years.

The blasts were the latest in spiraling violence that authorities have failed to stem, with bloodshed at its worst in five years amid worries of a return to the Sunni-Shiite sectarian war that peaked in 2006-2007.

Syrian regime air strikes killed more than 30 people Saturday in the Latakia province, bastion of the ruling Assad clan, and the northern city of Raqa, a monitory group said.

Seven children were among at least 13 civilians killed in an air raid on Raqa, the only provincial capital in rebel hands, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Sixteen members of Morocco's royal guards died in a road accident Saturday as they were headed north on a bus to prepare for a visit by King Mohammed VI, medics said.

The pre-dawn accident took place near Al-Hoceima in northern Morocco and wounded 42 other guards, a hospital source told Agence France Presse.

A coalition of Tunisian opposition parties intends to propose next week a cabinet of independents to end the political crisis shaking the country, one of their number said Saturday.

"The National Salvation Front will continue to work toward a government of national salvation and make its proposals on independent figures to constitute it next week," said Karima Souid, from the Massar party.

Iraqi Kurdistan's leader threatened on Saturday to intervene to protect Kurds in neighboring Syria, who are caught up in fighting between Kurdish forces and jihadists.

Massud Barzani's remarks came as fighting raged in Syria, which has been racked by civil war for nearly two and a half years.

Air strikes by the Syrian military killed at least 20 people in the northwestern province of Latakia overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights group said on Saturday.

"The toll in several air strikes on the town of Salma in Jabal Akrad rose to at least 20 people," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence France Presse.