A Saudi citizen who was "lured to restive areas" abroad, has surrendered and been repatriated, the interior ministry said on Sunday, without specifying where he had been.

The authorities in January 2011 published a list of 47 nationals accused of having links to the al-Qaida global extremist network.

Intense fighting in the central Syrian city of Homs has left 60 to 70 percent of a besieged rebel-held district damaged, destroyed or uninhabitable, a monitoring group said on Sunday.

The estimate from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights came nine days into an all-out assault by troops loyal to President Bashar Assad on the rebel-held Khaldiyeh and Old City neighborhoods, which have been under siege for more than a year.

Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei called for the Muslim Brotherhood to be included in Egypt's political future, in a media interview conducted before his candidacy as interim premier hit opposition.

ElBaradei told German news weekly Der Spiegel in remarks published Sunday that members of the Muslim Brotherhood camp of ousted president Mohamed Morsi should not be treated as criminals.

Thirty-three Syrians, including seven children, have been stopped by the Romanian coastguard as they were attempting to reach Europe, authorities said on Sunday.

Their sailing boat was spotted seven miles (11 kilometers) off Romania's Black Sea coast with eight women, seven children and 18 men on board, the coastguard said in a statement.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is to return to the Middle East later this week to resume efforts to draw Israel and the Palestinians back into direct negotiations, reports said on Sunday.

According to the top-selling Yediot Aharonot daily and the left-leaning Haaretz, Kerry was to arrive in Israel towards the end of the week on what would be his sixth visit to the region in as many months.

Two attacks outside the Bahraini capital Manama killed one policeman and wounded five, the interior ministry and police said on Sunday, in the latest unrest to rock the Sunni-ruled Shiite-majority Gulf state.

A bomb killed one policeman and wounded two in a Shiite village near Manama, Bahrain's head of public security said.

Egyptian security officials said Sunday that suspected Islamic militants have bombed a natural gas pipeline to Jordan south of the city of el-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula.

The attacks early Sunday on two points on the pipeline started fires that were soon put out, but the flow of gas was disrupted, said the officials.

The Jordanian government said on Sunday it seeks "credibility and transparency" in dealing with the case of Abu Qatada after Britain deported the radical Islamist cleric to Amman to face trial on terror charges.

"The government is keen on credibility and transparency in handling the issue of Abu Qatada," information minister and government spokesman Mohammad Momani, told the state-run Petra news agency.

Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi on Saturday issued a religious decree, or fatwa, urging Egyptians to support overthrown Islamist president Mohammed Morsi who was toppled by the army on Wednesday.

"Their every action is invalid," Qaradawi said of "those who have overthrown the president, suspended the constitution and imposed another president and constitution" on Egypt.

Republican Senator John McCain called for a suspension of U.S. military aid to Egypt after the army ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, breaking with the official position in Washington.

"I've thought long and hard about this, but I believe that we have to suspend the aid to the Egyptian military, because the Egyptian military has overturned the vote of the people of Egypt," McCain said Friday evening at a press conference in his home state of Arizona.