A man was killed Saturday in a Turkish town by a stray bullet fired from across the border in war-torn Syria, the private NTV television network reported.

NTV, which cited no sources, said Ramazan Zeybel, a Turk, died in hospital in Ceylanpinar, which lies across the border from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain that has seen fighting in recent weeks.

Gunmen shot dead a woman and her two daughters in Iraq Saturday and a roadside bomb killed a man and his son as 10 died in other attacks, officials said.

Iraq is witnessing its deadliest violence since 2008, when it was emerging from a prolonged and bloody sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

Egypt's interior ministry Saturday repeated its call for supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi to end their sit-ins, saying that would allow the Muslim Brotherhood to return to politics.

The ministry, in a televised statement, called on protesters in Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares to return to their homes and work.

Rebels battling Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime captured an arms and ammunition dump in the Qalamun area near Damascus early on Saturday, a watchdog said.

In the north, fighting between Kurds and jihadists raged as the main opposition National Coalition called on armed groups there to "exercise restraint."

Syria's main opposition group called Saturday for the immediate release of an Italian Jesuit priest who went to negotiate with jihadists and who is feared to have been taken prisoner.

The National Coalition said it "expresses its deep concern over the disappearance of Father Paolo (Dall'Oglio) over four days ago in Raqa and calls for the disclosure of any information that could help identify his location and ensure his safety."

The next round of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks will take place in the region during the second week of August, Israel's negotiator Tzipi Livni, who is also justice minister, said Saturday.

"These discussions that began in Washington will resume during the second week of August and will take place in the region," Livni told the private Channel 10 television station.

The U.N. sounded the alarm Saturday about the plight of women and children in Syria's Homs, urging all parties in the conflict to enable access to some 400,000 trapped civilians.

"The situation of women and children in the Syrian city of Homs is rapidly deteriorating," UNICEF said in a statement, adding that "new checkpoints are preventing more supplies from entering" the neighborhood of al-Waer.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to try to distance himself Friday from comments he made that were seen as endorsing the Egyptian military's overthrow of a civilian ruler.

Washington has struggled to articulate a coherent position on the situation in Egypt, where the army stepped in to depose president Mohammed Morsi following large-scale street protests.

Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri accused the U.S. of "plotting" with Egypt's military, secularists and Christians to overthrow Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, in an audio recording posted on militant Islamist forums.

In his first public comment on the July 3 military coup, the al-Qaida boss, himself an Egyptian, said: "Crusaders and secularists and the Americanized army have converged ... with Gulf money and American plotting to topple Mohamed Morsi's government."

Moroccan police on Friday dispersed a crowd of several thousand people protesting against a royal pardon handed to a Spanish man reportedly convicted of raping 11 children.

Dozens of people including photographers and reporters were injured in clashes with authorities, who stepped in to prevent the protest in front of the parliament building in the capital Rabat.