1. Saudi Arabia sends hundreds of tanks and military vehicles into Yemen amid the intensifying air campaign against the poor Arab country.
2. Israeli army troops backed by tanks and bulldozers make an incursion into the besieged Gaza Strip.
3. Syria’s western, Hama province where government forces have liberated several villages from foreign-backed militants.
4. At least twenty six people are killed in two U-S drone attacks on Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar.
5. A former CIA chief admits that the U-S intelligence agency has used torture as a method of interrogating terror suspects.