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February 5, 2013
Opposition leader, Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib, urges President Assad to start talks about leaving the country and handing over power.
A Western diplomat tells Lebanese politicians that the attack by Israel on Tuesday night will only increase regime support.
The culture minister resigns after images of police brutality are aired on TV.
February 4, 2013
The Jewish state arrests 23 members of Hamas including three lawmakers in the Occupied Territories.
Saeed Jalil, the senior Iranian official visiting Damascus, tells reporters that Assad has their full support.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will become the first Iranian president to travel to Egypt in over 30 years when he visits Cairo next week to take part in a summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Reuters reported.
Following weeks of mounting tensions, more bombs go off just north of the Iraqi capital.
Activists in the Kingdom claim the man got off his sentence by paying "blood money" to the girl's mother.
The former presidential candidate who lost out to Morsi at the elections says the infamous stripping and beating of an old man by the Egyptian police was pre-planned by the interior ministry.
February 3, 2013
Following confirmation that Israel attacked a research center near Damascus, Syria's embattled president hits back at the Jewish state.
Defense minister, Ehud Barak, alludes to the attack while speaking at a security conference in Munich.
Syria's state television network broadcast footage showing, according to them, the aftermath of the Israeli attack on the research building close to the capital.
The nation's interior minister says the government will be launching an investigation after footage appears of a man stripped naked and beaten by police.
At least 30 people are reported dead after a suicide bomber and a gunmen attack police headquarters in Kirkuk.
The man behind the bombing of the embassy in Ankara on Friday was released from prison following terrorism charges.
