The opposition Syrian National Coalition on Sunday condemned the reported "collective execution" by rebels of soldier prisoners in the north and said it had created a commission of inquiry.

At least 150 Syrian regime forces died in fighting with rebels for control of Khan al-Assal, a key town in the northern Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.

At least 15 people were injured in the Egyptian city of Port Said overnight in clashes involving supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, state news agency MENA reported.

Witnesses and MENA said Morsi supporters had opened fire during the funeral of a fellow loyalist, but the ousted president's Muslim Brotherhood group denied the claims.

A suicide bomber killed nine Kurdish policemen in northern Iraq on Sunday, while five people died in other attacks, officials said.

With the latest attacks, violence has killed more than 730 people in July and over 3,000 since the beginning of the year, according to Agence France Presse figures based on security and medical sources.

Human Rights Watch on Sunday condemned the deaths of more than 70 people in violence that erupted at protests in Egypt, accusing authorities of a "criminal disregard for people's lives".

At least 72 people were killed in Cairo alone on Saturday morning, according to the Health Ministry, at a rally of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

An apparent U.S. drone strike killed six suspected Al-Qaida militants overnight, a Yemeni military source told AFP on Sunday.

The six suspects were traveling in a two-vehicle convoy in Mahfad in the southern province of Abyan, much of which was held by the jihadists before an army counter-offensive last year, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Kuwait's Shiite minority lost more than half of their seats and liberals made slight gains in the Gulf state's second polls in eight months, in a major blow to radicals.

The final results, released early Sunday by judicial authorities, showed Shiite candidates winning just eight seats in the 50-member parliament.

At least 72 people were killed during clashes in Cairo on Saturday, Egypt's Health Ministry said, after violence erupted at a demonstration in support of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

The ministry said nine others had died in violence in Egypt's second city, Alexandria, a day earlier, putting the toll in two days of unrest at 81.

Kuwait on Saturday awaited the results of its second parliamentary election in eight months, after day-long voting and early indications showing a higher turnout despite an opposition boycott.

No official figures were released when polling stations closed at 8:00 pm (1700 GMT) but state-run Kuwait television broadcast partial figures indicating a higher turnout from December's record-low 40 percent.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday condemned the violence that left dozens dead in Egypt as a massacre.

"In Egypt, democracy was massacred, national aspirations were massacred, and now the nation is being massacred," he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israel will free 104 Palestinian prisoners to coincide with the resumption of long-stalled peace talks brokered by the United States.

"I agreed to free 104 Palestinians in stages, after the start of negotiations and according to progress," he wrote on his official Facebook page.