Dutch authorities have arrested a 19-year-old woman suspected of recruiting jihadists to fight alongside radical Muslim rebels in Syria, a prosecution spokeswoman said on Monday.

"The woman was arrested and has been remanded for two weeks while an investigation is underway," Nicolette Stoel, spokeswoman for the Public Prosecutor's office in The Hague, told Agence France Presse.

A Norwegian woman sentenced to prison in Dubai after reporting she was raped was set free with a full pardon on Monday after her case sparked an outcry.

Marte Dalelv, 24, expressed relief at the end of a four-month ordeal which had seen her prosecuted and convicted for extramarital sex, perjury and consuming alcohol without a licence, after she lodged the complaint against her boss.

The family of ousted president Mohammed Morsi said Monday they plan to sue Egypt's army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, for having "kidnapped" the elected Islamist head of state.

Hundreds of Morsi's supporters, meanwhile, marched to the public prosecutor's office and the defense ministry in Cairo, chanting anti-military slogans and carrying pictures of the toppled president.

Kuwait's appeals court on Monday overturned a three-year jail term on three former opposition MPs and acquitted them from the charge of insulting the emir, a rights activist said.

In February, a lower court handed the jail terms against Falah al-Sawwagh, Bader al-Dahum and Khaled al-Tahus for making remarks at a public rally in October 2012 that were deemed offensive to Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.

Syria's rebels on Monday seized the strategic town of Khan al-Assal, a regime bastion in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.

They also took two villages located southeast of Aleppo, as they advanced towards cutting off the army's supply route to Syria's second city.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said any future peace deal with Israel will be put to a referendum, in remarks published Monday, four days after Washington announced the resumption of negotiations.

"Any agreement with the Israelis will be brought to a referendum," Abbas told Jordanian government-owned Al-Rai newspaper.

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil said on Monday that all arms agreements with Russia, including Moscow's controversial contract to deliver S-300 missile systems to Damascus, were still in place.

"All agreements between Russia and Syria in the area of arms deliveries are in place," visiting Syrian deputy prime minister said.

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at southern Israel that exploded without causing damage or injuries, an Israeli police spokesman told Agence France Presse on Monday.

"It exploded near a kibbutz in the Eshkol region," shortly before midnight on Sunday, said Micky Rosenfeld, adding police were still searching for the remains of what he said was a Qassam rocket.

At least 500 prisoners escaped when militants assaulted two prisons in Iraq, sparking fierce clashes that lasted about 10 hours and killed dozens of people, MPs said on Monday.

"About 500 prisoners escaped from Abu Ghraib prison," Hakem al-Zamili, a member of parliament's security and defense committee, told Agence France Presse.

Syrian army shelling destroyed the historic mausoleum of a companion of the Prophet Mohammed in the central city of Homs on Monday, a monitoring group and activists said.

Reports of the destruction of the Muslim pilgrimage site emerged as an intense army campaign to reclaim rebel-held areas of Homs, a strategic junction city, entered its fourth week.