Newly released video is second in two days to show executions by self-described Islamist fighters.

During speech at World Jewish Congress in Budapest, Guido Westerelle also assures that his government’s position on the Syrian uprising is strongly influenced by Israel’s security interests.

Government exercising more caution following intelligence reports and warnings by other governments that the major part of the rebel movement has been taken over by Jihadist groups.

Jewish leaders hope the three-day pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue, Africa's oldest, on the island of Djerba is regaining momentum after attendance plummeted in the wake of a 2002 al-Qaida bombing.

Raed Jaser, who was arrested in Canada for an alleged plot to derail a train, was served a deportation order in 2004 after being convicted on various charges; a court deferred the warrant after Jaser claimed he was 'Palestinian by blood' and had no rights in the UAE, where he was born.

Canadian security officials alleged that the suspects in the plot to derail a commuter train received 'guidance' from an Al-Qaida element in Iran, but Iran and Al-Qaida have been at war with each other for years.

Authorities say pair were planning to derail commuter train; no connection to Boston bombings, police say.

In a rare interview, Syria's President Bashar Assad threatens that the war supported by Arab states who are allies of the U.S. and Israel will spread to neighboring Jordan. If he steps down, he argues, al-Qaida will step up.

Jabhat al-Nusra, considered the most effective fighting force among Syrian rebel groups, pledges obedience to al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri; however, it distanced itself from claims it had merged with al-Qaida in Iraq.

Union with Syria's Jabhat al-Nusra, designated a terror group by the U.S., further complicates effort to send arms to rebels from abroad.