Saudi Arabia has imposed a total ban on advertisements for energy drinks and prohibited their sale in educational and sports facilities and government buildings due to health concerns, local press reported Tuesday.

The decision was taken following an interior ministry study of the "adverse effects of energy drinks," English-language daily Arab News said, without naming any of the brands affected.

An alleged plan by Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun to visit Saudi Arabia left the Lebanese media guessing whether such a trip will take place anytime soon.

Rabieh has not yet confirmed or denied that Aoun could make such a visit for talks with top Saudi officials.

An illegal migrant has died and nine others were wounded when Saudi police intervened to quell "chaos" at a detention center in the west of the kingdom, police said Monday.

The casualties fell during a "stampede" at Al-Shumaisi detention center, south of the holy city of Mecca, where migrants of various nationalities are held pending deportation.

Saudi women activists have petitioned the country's consultative council to back a demand to curb the "absolute authority" of male guardians over women in the ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom, a signatory said.

Saudi Arabia imposes a strict interpretation of Islamic law, forbidding women to work or travel without the authorization of their male guardians.

Saudi Arabia has hit back at Russian criticism of its reported plans to supply shoulder-launched missiles to Syrian rebels, saying it was Moscow's support for Damascus that was prolonging the conflict.

A spokesman told the official SPA news agency late Friday that the foreign ministry had been "astonished by Russian criticism of Saudi Arabia for its support of the Syrian people".

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday accused neighboring states of backing a powerful jihadist group that is operating in the country, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

"Some states do not want ISIL, especially on their territory, but they want ISIL in Iraq" for "sectarian" reasons, Maliki said in an interview broadcast on Iraqiya state television.

Saudi Arabia beheaded one its citizens in Eastern Province on Wednesday after he was convicted of murdering a compatriot, the interior ministry announced.

Abdullah al-Mabyuq shot dead Mohammed al-Faraj following a dispute, said the statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

Bahrain moved Wednesday to deter citizens from joining Islamist fighters abroad following similar action by other Gulf countries aimed at stemming the flow of homegrown jihadists to Syria.

The ministry said it has proposed an amendment to its anti-terror law, which currently prescribes a maximum five-year sentence for fighting abroad, pledging "more deterrent measures against citizens committing or taking part abroad in mass violence or combat."

Russia on Tuesday warned Saudi Arabia against supplying Syrian rebels with shoulder-launched missile launchers, saying such a move would endanger security across the Middle East and beyond.

The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that it was "deeply concerned" by news reports that Saudi Arabia was planning to buy Pakistani-made shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles and anti-tank systems for armed Syrian rebels based in Jordan.

Unknown gunmen have opened fire at a police station in a Shiite village in eastern Saudi Arabia, wounding three policemen, the interior ministry said Tuesday.

The attack took place late Sunday in the flashpoint Awamiya village, part of the predominantly Shiite Eastern Province district of Qatif where protests erupted in 2011 in the wake of the Arab Spring.