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Syrian rebels help a wounded comrade who survived a Syrian army strike outside a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo on 18 September AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
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Reward offered for capturing Al-Assad

Meanwhile Syrian army reported to have tested chemical weapons

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Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr (centre), Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (right), and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attend a joint press conference after their first high-level meeting on the Syria conflict in Cairo AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI
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Egypt, Iran, and Turkey in high level talks over Syria

Saudi Arabia did not send its foreign minister

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Empty seat of the Syrian delegation at a session of the United Nations Human Right Council in Geneva AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI
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Confidential list of Syrian war crime suspects handed to UN

Over 20,000 deaths later, independent UN investigators conclude war crimes have been…

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Mali’s interim president Dioncounda Traore AFP PHOTO / HABIBOU KOUYATE
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Mali and Guinea Bissau discussed at West Africa economic summit

Economic Community of West African States seeking UN approval for intervention

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Iranian military personnel place a national flag on a submarine during the "Velayat-90" navy exercises in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on 3 January 2012 AFP PHOTO / EBRAHIM NOROOZI
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Israel and Iran usual War Dance

Multinational armada in the Arab Gulf while Iran tests its defences

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USAID estimates there are roughly 4 million Syrians in need of humanitarian assistance inside the country, with 2 million internally displaced persons. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI
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Syria’s refugee crisis and ongoing violence set the stage for Brahimi

Refugee crisis in Turkey worsens as Brahimi continues talks in Syria

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Palestinian Islamists shout slogans during a demonstration against a film mocking Islam in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh near the southern Lebanese city of Sidon AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYYAT
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Reactions to Innocence of the Muslims

Egypt, US, and UN call for calm, while Iran and Al-Qaeda threaten

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Lakhdar Brahimi Khaled Desouki / AFP Photo
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Brahimi meets Al-Assad

Peace envoy’s meeting with Syrian president leaves behind warnings of a “crisis

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Syrian civilians who entered Turkey illegally are prevented to move further and asked to return back to Syria by Turkish border patrol on the Syrian-Turkish border on 11 September AFP PHOTO / ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS
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Turkey to relocate Syrian refugees

Turkish-based NGO believes number of Syrian refugees in Turkey could reach 300,000…

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Supporters of the Syrian women’s hunger strike outside the Arab League in central Cairo hold candles for those who have died in Syria Rachel Adams
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International inaction provokes Syrian women to hunger strike

Female activists tell Daily News Egypt why they are hunger striking

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