Moscow and Washington are in agreement about the need to stage a fresh round of Syria peace talks "as soon as possible,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday.

"Our opinions are very much the same. Come what may, we need to convene the Geneva 2 meeting as soon as possible," Lavrov told reporters in Washington.

Armed men fatally wounded one person and left several others injured at a Tripoli fairground on Friday night, security officials and police said.

"A group of criminals savagely opened fire at a fairground at Omar Mokhtar Street in Tripoli wounding three people but a seriously hurt woman died from her wounds when she arrived at the hospital," said Tripoli security headquarters on Facebook.

The United States said Friday it would reopen all of the embassies it shut this week except the one in Yemen, after re-assessing the al-Qaida threat.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington would also keep its consulate in the Pakistani city of Lahore closed, after pulling out staff on Thursday.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appealed to Egyptians to avoid provocations and favor dialogue amid heightening tensions between supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and the interim government.

Ban said he is "deeply concerned" by the political stalemate in Egypt, in a statement released by his spokesman on the occasion of the holiday marking the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

It looks like a standard scene in the corner of the children's intensive care unit at a hospital in this northern Israeli town. The counter is jammed with stuffed animals, and balloons shaped like princesses float against the ceiling. A nervous, silent father hovers over his injured daughter.

But he and the girl are Syrians, spirited across the border by the Israeli military for medical treatment unavailable amid the civil war at home. He is silent because he cannot speak Hebrew, nervous because his presence in Israel, Syria's long-time enemy, could place his family in danger if his trip is discovered.

Libya's army said on Friday it had deployed reinforcements in the capital Tripoli and its suburbs to bolster security after weeks of deadly violence.

An Agence France Presse correspondent said he saw more than 100 armored troop carriers and military vehicles mounted with machineguns and anti-aircraft guns rumble into Tripoli late Thursday.

Attacks killed four people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, as Muslims marked the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan which has been one the bloodiest in years.

More than 800 people were killed in attacks during Ramadan, which began in the second week of July and ended this week.

Several Egyptian militants were killed in an air strike in Sinai on Friday as they prepared to launch a rocket into Israel, security sources and witnesses said.

The source of the strike was not immediately clear. Some sources spoke of an Israeli air strike conducted from Israeli air space and others credited the Egyptian military.

A Libyan doctor who hosted a television program on human development was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the restive eastern city of Benghazi on Friday, a security official said.

Azzedine Koussos, a presenter for Libya Al-Hurra television, was hit by several rounds as he sat in his parked car near a blood bank in Benghazi's Sidi Hussein district after weekly Muslim prayers, the source said.

The Kremlin denied Friday that President Vladimir Putin had discussed a deal with the visiting Saudi intelligence chief for Moscow to sell arms to Riyadh in exchange for changing its position on Syria.

Putin held talks with in Moscow with Saudi Arabia's influential intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan on July 31, in a meeting which was not announced in advance and has intrigued observers.