ANKARA
Here are the main topics that The Anadolu Agency English News Desk will cover on Monday, August 18, 2014:
1. Developments in the Gaza Strip during the extended cease-fire between Israeli and Palestinian groups.
2. The ongoing civil war in Syria.
3. The clashes in Iraq involving the Islamic State as well as developments in Baghdad concerning the formation of a new government, following Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's resignation last Thursday.
4. "Our Request for Retaliation" Protests in Egypt for the first anniversary of the bloody raids perpetrated against anti-coup protesters in Cairo's Rabaa Square and Nahda Square.
- The trial hearings of Egypt's first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, alongside 130 other defendants.
5. Developments in eastern Ukraine, namely in Donetsk and Lugansk, where the Ukrainian army is fighting against pro-Russian separatists.
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