• State department admits to 'issues' over Gulf arms
• Turkey and Iran hold surprise talks on Syria
• Rebels shoot down jet and get access to missiles
• Egypt delays football season amid security concerns
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guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 October 2012 17.46 BST
A rebel fighter retreats after firing a rocket-propelled grenade against Assad's forces in Aleppo. Photograph: Sipa USA/Rex Features
17:46 BST Summary
Here's a round-up of the latest developments:
Syria
• The Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held surprise talks on Syria with Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on the sidelines of a summit in Azerbaijan. The 40-minute meeting came after the international envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, urged Iran to help broker a ceasefire on Syria.
• The EU has announced sanctions against a further 28 individuals and two companies connected with the Syrian regime. One is Razan Othman, wife of the prominent businessman Rami Makhlouf.
• Twenty people were killed in air raids by Syrian jets over the rebel-held town of al-Mayadin, south-east of Deir Ezzour, a resident told the Guardian. Ten children were among the dead, he said.
• The UN’s cultural agency, Unesco, is assembling a team of experts to assess Syria’s world heritage sites after damage to Aleppo’s Umayyad mosque. Karim Hendili, Arab buildings programme specialist at the organisation, told the Guardian that reported damage to the mosque, including the loss of ancient copies of the Qur’an, was “very distressing”.
• Maarat al-Numan, a key town on Syria's north-south road, which was seized by rebels last week, has come under intensive aerial bombardment. Video showed many buildings reduced to rubble.
• The US state department has publicly admitted it is concerned about Gulf-supplied weapons reaching jihadi groups in Syria. The spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said: "There are issues here as to where this [foreign supplied weapons] goes and that we need to all work hard to ensure that extremists, jihadists, al-Qaida [and] other groups who don’t share our larger interest in seeing a democratic Syria emerge from all of this [don't] get their hands on weapons that can be used to exploit the situation. She also urged Syria's neighbours to keep a vigilant watch over their airspace after Turkey grounded a passenger jet last week on suspicion of supplying arms to the Syrian government.
• Syrian rebels have shot down another Syrian jet, according to unverified video from activists. The MiG was shot down in Aleppo province, according to the opposition blogger Ammar Abdulhamid.
• European countries received more than 16,000 asylum application from Syrians between January 2011 and August this year, according to new figures from the UN. They included 912 applications to the UK.
Libya
• Hillary Clinton has taken responsibility for the deadly security breach at the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, saying the buck stops with her rather than with the White House. The secretary of state took the blame in an interview to CNN in what will be seen as an attempt to deflect Republican attacks on Barack Obama over the affair on the eve of the second presidential debate.
• More than 100 inmates have escaped from the al-Judaida prison in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the BBC reports. The prisoners are said to be of various nationalities, and officials say about 60 have so far been recaptured. It is unclear how the breakout happened.
Egypt
• The Egyptian Football Association has delayed the start of the premier league season over continuing doubts about security in the wake of last February's match in Port Said, when more than 70 fans from Cairo's al-Ahly club were killed, Ahram reports. Official claimed that the season was delayed because “the newly elected board decided to take the side of martyrs and injured families and to support the Ultras [Ahly club fans] in their demand to freeze the league competition until the Port Said case ends”.
Yemen
• An Iraqi consultant for the Yemeni defence ministry has been shot dead in the capital, Sana'a. It was the second such killing in the space of five days. Last Thursday, a Yemeni security official who worked at the US embassy was also shot dead in Sana'a in a similar attack.
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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2012/oct/16/syria-crisis-us-weapons-jihadis-live
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