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Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and chair of the body tasked with making peace with the Taliban, has been assassinated. 

A Turkish diplomatic source has told The World Desk that a fifth round of indirect peace talks between Syria and Israel will begin in Istanbul later this month, likely September 18th. The two countries have officially been at war since 1948 but confirmed in May that negotiations aimed at securing a peace deal were taking place.