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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry exchanged their views over the violence in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, as the latter held urgent talks in Geneva in a bid to bolster a fragile, partial cease-fire in Syria. 

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will be in Brussels on Monday, 18 January, to participate in a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC).

While participating in the High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly, in New York City, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias accompanied Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to meetings with the Presidents of China, Xi Jinpin; Egypt, Abdel Fatah Al Sisi; the Republic of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades; Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas; Brazil, Dilma Rousseff; and Equador, Rafael Correa. Mr.

Jordan said Feb. 8 it destroyed 56 targets in three days of strikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) after it murdered one of its pilots, and is determined to destroy ISIL.
      

Jordan said air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are only the start of its retaliation for the burning alive of one of its pilots, vowing to "eradicate" the jihadists.
      
Jordan's military said "dozens of jet fighters" struck ISIL targets on Thursday, hitting militant training camps as well as weapons and ammunition depots.
      

Jordan has deployed tens of fighter jets to bomb targets of the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq, officials say.

The military has vowed to continue with the attacks to bring IS to its defeat after the death of Moaz al-Kassabeh, a captured Jordanian military pilot who was burned alive, with IS members taking footage of their actions.

Men of all ages will be allowed to attend the main weekly Muslim prayers Friday at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound for the first time in "months", a police spokesman said.
      
"No age limit on the Temple Mount, we're hoping things will be calm and quiet today," spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told AFP.
      

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFP) informed that the cost free phone line TelVerde opened in support of the Romanian families of the Romanian citizens in the Gaza Strip has been closed. According to a press release on Monday sent to AGERPRES, any further requests for consular assistance will have to be addressed to the Directorate for Consular Relations.