Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi Thursday slammed "attacks" on the Muslim prophet Mohammed in a film on Islam that sparked an outcry in Egypt, while also stressing that he condemned violence.

"We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet. I condemn and oppose all who... insult our prophet," Morsi, on an official visit to Brussels, said in remarks broadcast by Egyptian state television.

International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Syria on Thursday on his first visit to the strife-torn country since his appointment two weeks ago, his spokesman said.

"During his visit to Syria, Brahimi will hold talks with the government and with representatives of the Syrian opposition and civil society," said a statement from Ahmad Fawzi, who had previously announced that the veteran diplomat would meet President Bashar Assad.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday in a visit to the Iraqi capital that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime is "doomed" and should not survive.

"We believe that the Assad regime is doomed, that it is not possible for it to survive, and so many crimes (have been) committed that it should not survive," Hague said at a joint news conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.

Yemeni police Thursday shot dead a protester and wounded five others when they opened fire on a crowd attempting to storm the U.S. embassy in Sanaa to protest a film mocking Islam, a security official said.

The shooting came as protesters, chanting "O, messenger of Allah... O, Mohammed," launched a second charge on the complex which they had stormed earlier but were ejected by the security forces.

Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has postponed until next week a Cairo trip for top-level talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hisham Qandil, a spokesman said Thursday.

Haniya had been scheduled to travel to Egypt on Thursday for discussions on security in the wake of an August 5 attack which killed 16 Egyptian border guards in the northern Sinai, which borders the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Syrian rebels advanced into the contested central Midan district of the country's commercial capital Aleppo, witnesses and military sources said, as combat rocked several city neighborhoods on Thursday.

"They were at Bustan al-Basha (district) and had already advanced up to Suleyman al-Halabi Street. Now they have entered a street in Midan," one resident said.

Police used tear gas as they clashed on Thursday with a stone- and bottle-throwing crowd protesting outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo at a film mocking Islam, witnesses and the interior ministry said.

The health ministry said 13 people were injured during sporadic clashes through the night outside the embassy, where on Tuesday thousands of protesters tore down the Stars and Stripes and replaced it with a black Islamic flag.

Hollywood star and U.N. special envoy Angelina Jolie on Thursday visited Turkey's largest camp for Syrian refugees near the border, where overjoyed thousands welcomed her, Turkish media reported.

Jolie, accompanied by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonia Guterres, met with some of the 12,000 refugees at Oncupinar camp in southeastern Kilis city, which lies right on the border with their conflict-wracked homeland.

Israeli prosecutors have charged six Jewish minors with a hate attack on a Palestinian man in a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem last week, the justice ministry confirmed on Thursday.

It said in a statement received by Agence France Presse that the six set upon Ibrahim Abu Taa, a 28-year-old hotel employee from mainly Arab east Jerusalem, late last Wednesday as he and a Jewish workmate drove a female colleague home in the blue-collar Katamon neighborhood after partying at a west Jerusalem club.

U.S. President Barack Obama called the leaders of Egypt and Libya to discuss security cooperation following the violence in Cairo and Benghazi, the White House said Thursday.

Obama urged Egypt to uphold its commitments to protect U.S. diplomats and called on Libya to work with U.S. authorities to bring those behind the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate, which killed the U.S. ambassador, to justice.