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Zebari: We are facing our biggest threat
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari tells CNN's Becky Anderson his country is fighting against the threat of global terrorism and that this is the biggest challenge it now faces.
Al-Faisal: Syria is a 'festering wound'
As Geneva 2 talks continue, former ambassador to the US and Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal spoke to CNN about his position on the Syrian war.
"I'd describe Syria as a festering wound, and you know festering wounds, they collect all the worst bacteria that can come together in one part. And this is what is happening in Syria. We have all of these groups, crazies, from Shia and Sunni, other groups, fighting there. And they're terribly, terribly destructive. So we have to get them out of Syria, and the world community has a responsibility in that."
He suggests that hope for a resolution lies with the proposed placement of an interim government, when "all of these groups, will, by the nature of the situation, disappear. They come from outside, they come from places like the United States, the UK, the Arab world, Muslim world, from Iraq, from Iran, from all over. So once you have a good and authoritative government in place, they will not have a place."
When asked about how entrenched Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to be, given his recent announcement of his plan to run for re-election, al-Faisal answered that that is just wishful thinking. "How can you run for election in a country that is 75% destroyed, with bombings everyday taking place in all the towns and villages? This is just propaganda... and frankly after the way he conducted himself with the Syrian people, killing so many in documented authority, and affidavits, and photographs, and witnesses, how can one expect him to even claim to have any legitimacy in that situation?"
The ghost homes of Aleppo
Syria is a country that has been ravaged by years of civil war. Italian photographer Matteo Rovella, who went to the Syrian city of Aleppo last summer, found a new way of documenting the impact of the violence. Wearing just a helmet and a flak jacket, he went inside the city’s many ghost houses, left empty as families fled for their lives.
As is evident from the images he captured, most of the families didn’t have time to pack their things. “You see such scenes and you imagine the moment when people had to escape from the rooms. You feel that they had to escape or die.”
“You really get the feeling of the war, you really get the feeling of the situation, it was a very touching experience.”
British Doc's Mom: Never be an aid worker
Max Foster speaks to the mother of a British doctor who believes her son was murdered while being held in a Syrian jail.
Read: Brother on British doctor's death in Syria
Brother on British doctor's death in Syria
Abbas Khan's family had been preparing for a homecoming in Britain after learning that Syria's government was going to release him.
The 32-year-old orthopedic surgeon was arrested for entering Syria without a visa more than a year ago after volunteering to treat wounded victims of that country's civil war. After his mother personally pleaded with top Syrian officials to free him, they appeared to have relented. A member of the House of Commons, George Galloway, was planning to fly to Damascus to bring him home on Friday.
Instead, his family was told that Khan was dead by his own hand, found hanging in his cell.
Read: British doctor's death in Syria no suicide, family says
Becky speaks with Shah Nawaz Khan, the brother of surgeon Dr. Abbas Khan, who calls the Syrian report "absolute slander".
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