A Norwegian woman who narrowly escaped jail after reporting she was raped in Dubai arrived home on Wednesday, telling media that she had acted "stupidly" during her prolonged ordeal.

Marte Dalelv, 24, said in an interview with a local newspaper that she had been tricked into withdrawing her initial rape report, exposing herself to being convicted for consensual extramarital sex.

A man suspected of wanting to fight alongside radical Islamist rebels in Syria was detained in France as part of an anti-terrorist operation, a source close to the case said Wednesday.

The unidentified 47-year-old was visiting his family near the eastern city of Belfort when he was taken in for questioning Tuesday by intelligence officers, the source told Agence France Presse.

Bahrain police said on Wednesday they recaptured two men suspected of attacks on security forces, two months after they escaped from custody along with other detainees.

The pair, who were arrested late Tuesday, were accused over "a number of terror acts," including setting a car ablaze near the kingdom's Formula One circuit, and detonating a car bomb near Manama's Financial Harbor, police said in a statement.

Gunmen killed two Egyptian soldiers in the restive Sinai on Wednesday, security officials said, as the military chief called for mass rallies to back a crackdown on "terrorism and violence".

One soldier died of a bullet wound to the chest after gunmen fired at a checkpoint near the north Sinai town of EL-Arish, the officials said.

Egypt's army chief called Wednesday for public rallies this week to give him a mandate to fight "terrorism and violence," as Mohammed Morsi's supporters continue to protest against his ouster.

"Next Friday, all honorable Egyptians must take to the street to give me a mandate and command to end terrorism and violence," General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a speech broadcast live on state television.

Two senior U.N. inspectors tasked with examining claims that chemical weapons have been deployed in Syria's civil war arrived in Damascus on Wednesday, an Agence France Presse photographer reported.

Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom and Angela Kane, the U.N. high representative for disarmament, arrived at a hotel in the Syrian capital.

A blast Wednesday at a police station in a Nile Delta city killed one person and wounded 28, a medic said, in the latest incidence of violence sweeping Egypt since president Mohammed Morsi's ouster.

Mohamed Sultan, deputy head of the emergency services, told Agence France Presse an explosive device went off very early in the morning outside a police station in the city of Mansura, in Dahqaliya province.

Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel on Wednesday but caused no damage or casualties, a police spokeswoman said.

"The rockets landed in the Eshkol region," Luba Samri told Agence France Presse, adding that "security forces are searching for their remains".

Militants killed nine police in an attack with mortars and automatic weapons in Iraq on Wednesday, while 14 people including six soldiers died in other violence, officers and doctors said.

The attacks come a day after an al-Qaida front group claimed brazen assaults on two prisons in Iraq that killed more than 40 people, among them 20 members of the security forces, and saw hundreds of inmates, including senior militants, escape.

Gas-rich Qatar, a strong backer of Arab Spring uprisings and supporter of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, has joined international calls for his release from detention while expressing concern at violence sweeping Egypt.

State news agency QNA late Tuesday quoted a foreign ministry official as saying Qatar had voiced "concern over the developments in Egypt, especially with the increasing number of civilian victims.”