However, recently Washington has softened its rhetoric, saying that Assad might play a certain role in the “transitional period”.

Hundreds of firefighters have been battling the blaze along the famous Great Ocean Road in Victoria's south-west, popular with holidaymakers.

Rouhani and his ally, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, hope to win a majority by cashing in on the popularity they gained from the nuke deal.

"If things continue like this, we will become just like Syria," says Mehmet Salih Bagata, a lawyer in the southeastern town of Cizre.

The counter-terrorism forces are within 800 meters from the government complex, advancing by about 1 km in the past day.

The exhibition consists of 50 black and white prints by Houston photographer Benny Joseph (b. 1924).

The program will feature seven different titles (one each month) and bring the world’s greatest works of art, and their environs, to the big screen.

Azerbaijani soldiers have fired 8000 shots using grenade launchers, mortars, rocket launchers, D-30 howitzer and Zu-23-2 autocannon.

The "Star Wars" movie is now the 22nd highest domestic grosser of all time, outpacing "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II".

The show posted on its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram page a new picture of Claire (Caitriona Balfe) strolling through a street in Paris.