U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the Syrian opposition National Coalition Ahmed Jarba held their first meeting on Saturday in a bid to press for a Syria peace conference.
The Islamist militant onslaught in Iraq raises the spectre of a sectarian conflict spilling across the embattled nation's borders, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday.
Tehran, YJC. Iran's Chief of Armed Forces Staff Hassan Firouzabadi has said that the country is worried about a possible massacre in Syria's Kobani in case the town falls.
Hailed as a saviour for overthrowing an Islamist president, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi can count on the vote of Egypt's Coptic Christians who view him as a bulwark against fundamentalists.
She pointed out that
it meant that all would be promptly released including, “above all Ali Seriati
[chief of Ben Ali’s presidential guard] and Rafik Haj Kacem [former interior
minister] This is serious. It is what happened under Ben Ali. So it is like we
didn’t have a revolution.” In
previous trials Ali Seriati had been sentenced to 20 years and Rafik Haj Kacem,
15 years.