The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights says on Monday that in four days in west of Syria, nearly a thousand civilians were killed during fighting with troops who are faithful to the deposed President Bashar al-Assad. And Mahmoud Khalil, one of the leaders of the Pro-Palestinian student protest movement at Columbia University in New York, was arrested on Saturday by agents of immigration service ICE. Follow all developments in the Middle East in our live blog.

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