BAGHDAD (AFP) - Jihadists and weapons are moving from Iraq to Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad's regime is attempting to crush an uprising against his rule, Iraq's deputy interior minister told AFP Saturday.

DAMASCUS (AFP) - "An armed terrorist group" gunned down a Syrian general in Damascus on Saturday, the official SANA news agency reported, saying the general was in charge of a military hospital in the capital.

MADRID (AFP) - Spain's two biggest unions called Saturday for nationwide protests on February 19 against labour reforms which they said would destroy jobs.

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AFP) - Two people died and 18 were wounded during fierce clashes Saturday between Lebanese Sunni Muslims hostile to Syria's regime and Alawites who support it, a Lebanese security official said.

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has broken the "idol" of the Holocaust underpinning the creation of the Israeli state and US hegemony, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday in a speech marking the anniversary of his country's 1979 Islamic revolution.