Taksim Solidarity: Erdogan promises to abide by court ruling on park plans, hold referendum if court rules in government's favor.

Syrian president says calls on all Syrian factions to join Palestinian forces in long term resistance in the Golan.

Obama administration says Assad regime has crossed ''red line,'' citing clear evidence that they have used chemical weapons.

Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei casts his ballot on live television, urging a large voter turnout in the presidential election; says he does not ''give a damn'' about US suggestions that the ballot is unfair.

Forewarnings of an assault by Assad on Aleppo echo the daunting days before Gaddafi descended on Benghazi.

Men seeking $6m in compensation for unlawful incarceration; Nigeria says men planned attacks on US, Israeli targets.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said in Warsaw that labeling Hezbollah as a terrorist group should not even be debated.

Roger Cukierman, the president of the French Jewish umbrella organization CRIF, has accused a state-funded museum of celebrating Palestinian sucide bombers.

Children between the ages of six and 16 in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip have been photographed doing life-like military training exercises, fire guns and jump over burning tires, according to the news agency AFP

According to NGO Monitor, EU funds are going to organizations involved in anti-Israel boycotts and violent demonstrations, which, it says, ''undermine the EU's efforts to secure peace in the Middle East.''