BBC News with Sue Montgomery
An Iraqi delegation visiting Syria to try to broker an end to the violence there says it's had positive talks with President Bashar al-Assad. The Iraqis are trying to seek agreement based on peace proposals made by the Arab League. Jim Muir reports from Baghdad.
The Arab League has already suspended Syria's membership in the body and imposed economic sanctions. Now the foreign minister of Qatar has said that on Wednesday a full meeting of Arab foreign ministers will be asked to approve a resolution passing the issue to the UN Security Council. The idea would not be to ask for outside military intervention as happened in Libya, but to get the Security Council to adopt and pursue the Arab peace plan. It calls for an immediate halt to violence, the withdrawal of the military from the streets, the release of prisoners and the deployment of hundreds of outside observers to monitor the peace. For President Assad in Syria, it's an ominous development.
The Nato alliance has formally ended its seven-year mission to train the army in Iraq. The event was marked with a ceremony in Baghdad.
Nato decided to end the mission after failing to agree terms with Iraq for its extension. The alliance wanted its trainers to be immune from prosecution under Iraqi laws, but the government wouldn't accept that.
There's been a second day of violence in Egypt with protesters and the security forces clashing in the centre of Cairo. State television says nine people have been killed since the trouble began on Friday. Yolande Knell reports from Cairo.