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Comment: Establishing a programme along the same lines as in Iraq may pave a path to the end of violence, writes James Denselow.
Turkey has redeployed some of its troops on Monday from a camp in Nineveh province towards the north in what seems as a bid to settle tensions with Baghdad.
Iraqis - including Shia militia fighters - took to the streets of Baghdad on Saturday to protest at Turkey's military presence in Iraq, and Abadi's inability to handle the crisis.
Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate have rejected plans to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad, and accused rebels who attended a Syrian opposition meeting in Riyadh of committing 'treason'.
Syria was hit by an Islamic State group bombing again on Saturday, as regime-held Homs city became the latest target of the extremist group.
Nearly 30 journalists have been killed in Syria in the past three months with dozens more injured or arrested as the war continues to take its toll.
Turkey's refusal to withdraw troops from Iraq after the expiry of Baghdad's deadline calling for them to withdraw has prompted Iraq's prime minister to call for NATO intervention.
Turkey has stopped the deployment of troops to northern Iraq for now but will not withdraw those already there, Turkey's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Civilians were victim of a coalition airstrike on the north-eastern Syrian village of al-Khan in the Hasakah countryside on Monday, according to local sources.
Attacks on the Popular Mobilisation militia in Kirkuk and Baghdad kills and wounds several militia members while gunmen assassinate a captain in the Iraqi Army in Diyala province.