Arab foreign ministers are to meet in Saudi Arabia on Monday to discuss the Syrian conflict, the Arab League said on Thursday.

The meeting was called by Riyadh, which backs armed rebels in Syria, to discuss the "steps that need to be taken to deal with the Syrian tragedy," the Cairo-based organization’s deputy chief Ahmed Ben Hilli told reporters.

A Saudi woman was killed in a car crash in the capital Thursday as she defied the kingdom's long-standing ban on female driving, local media reported.

The woman, in her 20s, lost control of her vehicle and crashed into the wall of a youth club in Riyadh, according to the website of the local Al-Jazeera daily.

Saudi Arabia has announced four more deaths from the MERS coronavirus and 18 new infections, as it battles to contain the mystery disease which has now killed 121 people in the kingdom.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) after a five-day mission to Jeddah pinpointed breaches in its "recommended infection prevention and control measures" as being partly responsible for an increase in infections in the Red Sea city.

The Ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed that no cases of infection with the deadly MERS coronavirus have been recorded in Lebanon until the moment, reassuring that its preventative measures are sufficient.

“I call on the Lebanese not to panic over the MERS coronavirus,” Health Minister Wael Abou Faour said at a press conference, following media reports that a case was registered at Beirut's Hotel Dieu hospital.

Saudi Arabia's acting health minister has announced the sacking of the head of a Jeddah hospital where a spike in MERS infections among medical staff sparked panic among the public.

And as two more deaths were announced from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, which some researchers think may originate in camels, Adel Fakieh also announced an awareness campaign to help stop the disease's spread.

Saudi Arabia has dismantled a "terrorist organization" that was plotting attacks against government installations and foreign interests, the interior ministry announced Wednesday.

Authorities have arrested 62 suspected members of the group, among them three foreigners, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Al-Ekhbariya satellite channel.

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri held a series of meetings on Tuesday with a number of officials on the latest local and regional developments, especially Wednesday's presidential elections, reported the National News Agency.

He kicked off his talks by meeting Speaker Nabih Berri at his Ain el-Tineh residence after which he expressed Riyadh's support for Lebanon's security and agreement among its people.

A Guantanamo inmate from Saudi Arabia -- accused of being a former al-Qaida recruiter -- refused to appear at a hearing Monday to avoid undergoing a body search, his representative said.

A six-member review panel is examining whether U.S. officials should continue to hold Muhammad Abd Al-Rahman Al-Shumrani, 39, without charge, repatriate him, or release him to a third country.

The only known U.S. case of the dangerous Middle East respiratory virus -- a medical worker who became ill after traveling to Saudi Arabia -- is improving, health officials said Monday.

No additional cases had been identified as of Sunday, the Indiana Department of Health said, adding that a press conference would be held at 1530 GMT to give further details.

Saudi Arabia's health ministry says one more patient who contracted the potentially fatal Middle East virus related to SARS has died and that 14 new cases have been detected.

The ministry said on its website Sunday that a Saudi man in his 70s died in Riyadh. It says this brings to 112 the number of deaths from the virus in the kingdom since September 2012.