BBC News: Middle East

20 March 2013 Last updated at 16:24 ET

US and Israel 'share same goals'

Barack Obama and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu say they share the same goals, as the US leader makes his first visit to Israel as president.

Syria's government and opposition both call for an international inquiry into an attack in which each accused the other of using chemical weapons.

A militant umbrella group that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq says it was behind the wave of bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday which killed some 50 people.

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