Turkey is ready to work with the United Nations if a humanitarian crisis develops in neighboring Syria after months of deadly political unrest, its foreign minister was quoted as saying on Sunday.

"We hope that before the situation reaches that stage, the Syrian administration will halt the unjust war it has waged against its own people and find ways to make peace with its people," Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Activists behind the uprising which ousted Hosni Mubarak are up in arms over grandiose plans by Egypt's military rulers to celebrate the first anniversary of the revolution, insisting it is still a work in progress.

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has fireworks displays and other celebrations lined up for January 25 to mark one year since the launch of the revolt that forced president Mubarak to step down after three decades in power.

Libya's ruling National Transitional Council on Sunday postponed the adoption of a new election law which it discussed at a meeting, a council member told Agence France Presse.

NTC member Abdul Razzaq al-Arabi said the adoption of the election law was postponed to January 28.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Sunday Riyadh was pulling its observers from the widely criticized Arab League observer mission to Syria because Damascus had not kept its promises.

Saudi Arabia "is withdrawing from the mission because the Syrian government has not respected any of the clauses" in the Arab plan aimed at ending the crisis there, he said according to the text of a statement he made at a ministerial meeting of the 22-member body in Cairo.

Syrian-British filmmaker Ghassan Abdullah was arrested on Sunday in Damascus as he was returning to his hometown of Daraa in the south of the unrest-swept country, a media rights group reported.

The Syrian Center for Media and Free Expression gave no further details on the arrest of the filmmaker, who has dual nationality.

Israel on Sunday proposed a compromise deal allowing residents of an illegal West Bank outpost that the high court has ordered evacuated to stay in their homes while new ones are constructed nearby.

The High Court of Justice has ordered the government to demolish the Migron outpost, which was established on private Palestinian land and without government authorization, by the end of March 2012.

Yemen's longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh said he will head to the United States for medical treatment as he asked his people for forgiveness, in a farewell speech released as he left Sanaa on Sunday.

"I will go to the United States for treatment and will then return as head of the General People's Congress (GPC) party," the official Saba news agency quoted Saleh as saying.

Abdul Hafiz Ghoga, the deputy head of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council, told Agence France Presse on Sunday that he is resigning from his post.

"My resignation shows that the NTC is a tribune for fighting for a cause and not a governing body. We are not looking for posts," he said.

Two suspected al-Qaida fighters were killed in clashes with Yemeni troops in the restive southern province of Abyan, a local official said on Sunday.

The clashes flared on Saturday night in the provincial capital Zinjibar, where troops have been battling militants for nearly eight months to regain control of territory lost to the extremist group last May.

Syrian security forces shot dead twelve people on Sunday across the country, activists said, as army defectors briefly overran a protest hub near Damascus.

The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said regime troops killed seven people in the Damascus suburbs of Douma, al-Kisweh and Talfita, three in the restive northwestern province of Idlib and one in each of the central opposition bastions of Hama and Homs.