Mohammed al-Bashir chairs cabinet meeting of new transitional government and will lead interim authority until 1 March
Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that at least 22 people have been killed overnight in the Gaza Strip by Israeli strikes.
The Associated Press has filed a report on Suheil Hamwi, who spent 32 years in a Syrian prison, and how, after the lightning offensive by insurgents that toppled the government of Bashar al-Assad, he has finally returned to his home in Lebanon.