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Russia said Damascus has agreed "in principle" to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending Syria's civil conflict.
A Syrian military source said Thursday that the rebels have shelled the central prison in Syria's Aleppo, killing many prisoners and injuring others.
Obama on Wednesday discussed with visiting Russian Security Council Secretary the need for a negotiated settlement of Syria.
Palestine has asked the UN Security Council to press Israel to end its "provocations", including restricting access to holy sites in East Jerusalem.
Iran further expanded its nuclear enrichment capability by installing hundred advanced centrifuges in a uranium enrichment plant.
The foreign ministers of "Friends of Syria" nations said Wednesday that they want a transitional government in Syria that does not include current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The Israeli military fired missiles into Syria after its troops got shot on a patrol near the Syrian frontier on the Golan Heights.
The Islamic republic will host a meeting on the Syrian crisis on May 29, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Tuesday.
A total of 95 people, including 23 Hezbollah members, have been killed in an intense fighting in Syria's central city of al-Qussair over the past 48 hours, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday.
At least nine people were killed and 53 others wounded in bombing attacks against two Shiite mosques in Iraq's southern city of Hilla on Monday, a police source said.
At least 13 people were killed and 72 wounded in a series of car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and the southern city of Basra on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria.
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