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Suspected extremists torched a West Bank mosque in an apparent revenge attack Nov. 12, as the Palestinian leader and the U.S. top diplomat were to meet Jordan's King Abdullah over the spiralling violence.

Iran and world powers met in Muscat Nov. 11 amid growing signs that a long-bargained deal on Tehran's nuclear programme will not be struck by a November 24 deadline.
      

The United States and Iran began high-level talks in Oman Nov. 9 ahead of a looming deadline for a deal on Tehran's nuclear programme, with both sides under pressure at home.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Beijing on Saturday ahead of next week's APEC summit, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.
      

Several thousand Iranians gathered outside the former US embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4 to mark its storming by students 35 years ago, burning the American flag.
      
In what has become an annual spectacle, demonstrators chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel, Death to Britain."       

Israeli plans for roughly 500 new settler homes in occupied east Jerusalem are a "slap in the face" of the United States and the international community, a top Palestinian official said.
      

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu is adamant that Turkey will not send troops into Kobani, or anywhere else in Syria, to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). He said this recently on BBC and repeated it over the weekend during the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) meeting in Afyonkarahisar.

Vučić thanked for "support in battle against ISIL"

BELGRADE -- U.S. President Barack Obama has thanked Aleksandar Vučić "for Serbia's support to the international coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant."

This is what U.S.State Secretary John Kerry informed Vučić on Thursday, said a statement.

BELGRADE - US President Barack Obama has thanked Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic for Serbia's support to the international coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), US State Secretary John Kerry informed Vucic on Thursday.

Iraqi Kurdistan is prepared to deploy more forces to the Syrian border town of Kobane if asked, the region’s president said in a statement, in which he thanked Turkey and the U.S. for their cooperation in sending Iraqi Kurds to the Syrian town.