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Members of Lebanon's of Hezbollah Shiite movement salute during the funeral of their comrade Saleh Ahmad Sabbagh in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on May 22, 2013. Local media said Sabbagh, the son of a Sunni father and a Shiite mother, who converted to Shiite Islam and joined Hezbollah years ago, was killed in the ongoing battle of Qusayr in the Syrian province of Homs. AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYYAT (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images) — Members of Lebanon's of Hezbollah Shiite movement salute during the funeral of their comrade Saleh Ahmad Sabbagh in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on May 22, 2013. — MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images

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Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (L) looks past his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu (2nd R) during the opening of a ministerial meeting in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah, by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on May 13, 2013. The OIC urged its member states to make generous contributions at this week's main donors conference on Mali to be held in Brussels, which aims to raise funds to repair the damage caused by the war against Islamists in the African country. AFP PHOTO/STR

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