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June 13, 2013
A Turkish protester died in hospital on Thursday morning after being hit in the head with a tear gas canister, bringing the death toll in Turkey to five people. Thousands have been injured.
Egyptian Islamist parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood, called on Wednesday for a “million-man march” on June 21.
Iran’s financial institutions are on the “verge of bankruptcy” and the country could lose “control over the banking system,” the country’ s Supreme National Security Council has warned in a memo obtained and distributed by an Iranian opposition movement on Wednesday.
The office of U.N. special representative on children in conflict, Leila Zerrougui said it had received “verified reports that Syrian children are killed or injured in indiscriminate bombings, shot by snipers, used as human shields or victims of terror tactics.”
June 12, 2013
The Israeli PM on Wednesday said that Tehran's policies will still be dictated by the Supreme Ruler of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei regardless who comes out on top in Friday's elections, as the Iranian leader urged all Iranian citizens to partake in Friday's vote.
After several civilians were injured after Syrian rockets landed in the Lebanese border town of Arsal on Wednesday, the Lebanese army has warned it will respond with "the necessary defensive measures" if a similar attack occurs.
Lebanese border town of Arsal struck by missile fire from a Syrian helicopter on Wednesday, leaving several people wounded
Protests against the Shiite militant group Hezbollah erupted in Kuwait, the day that seven supermarkets in the country began a boycott of Iranian products
In an apparent move of retaliation, Syrian rebels enveloped the eastern Syrian village of Hatla, near Iraq, on Tuesday and killed 60 Shiites, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Longtime ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the tyrant Syrian leader could have avoided the now two year old brutal civil war, and that Russia is "not an advocate for Assad".
US Secretary of State John Kerry is to meet his British counterpart on Wednesday as Washington struggles to organise an international peace conference that would bring together the Syrian government and opposition
Many leading Iranian conservatives have called for conservative candidates to withdraw from the upcoming elections, so that the party can present a unified front.
Turkish police fired teargas throughout Taksim Square in a bid to remove demonstrators from the scene
Austrian peacekeeping troops from the UN monitoring force in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights began their withdrawal from the border crossing on Wednesday, in light of escalating tension between the Syrians and Israelis.
Syrian fighters loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have killed 26 men in eastern Damascus, as they allegedly brought flour and food aid to fighters.
