A Syrian deputy foreign minister slammed Turkey on Friday for training and facilitating the passage of "terrorists," according to a television interview given during a summit of non-aligned states in Iran.

Turkey had a particularly "destructive role" in the conflict, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad told Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam television.

Syrian civilians are living in a constant state of fear, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday, warning of a fast deteriorating humanitarian situation across large parts of the country.

"People fear for their lives every minute of the day," said Marianne Gasser, head of the ICRC in Syria.

Eight suspected al-Qaida members were killed in an apparent U.S. drone strike in eastern Yemen on Friday, a local official said.

The official, who declined to be named, told Agence France Presse the suspects were in an armored car on the road between Qatan and Khashgha when it was struck.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday told Syria's prime minister in Tehran on Friday that fighting must stop in Syria "with the primary responsibility resting on the government to halt its use of heavy weapons."

In the meeting with Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, Ban said he set out "my demands for all sides to cease all forms of violence," with Damascus bearing the greatest responsibility.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to rally divided groups of Palestinians together to "free their land," according to his official website on Friday.

"All Palestinian groups should be united, because then they will have more chance of freeing their land," Ahmadinejad told Abbas, who was making his first visit to Tehran to participate in a two-day Non-Aligned Movement summit.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to order a military strike against Iranian nuclear sites, the newspaper Haaretz reported on Friday.

The article, citing an Israeli official on condition of anonymity, said Merkel had called Netanyahu 10 days ago amid a wave of reports of an imminent Israeli attack, to give a "clear message as to her opposition" to such action.

The United States and Israel are responsible for the conflict scorching Syria by "flooding weapons" to rebels there, the supreme leader of Iran -- the main ally of Syria's regime -- said on Friday, according to his official website.

"The main and behind-the-scenes operators behind the painful issues in Syria are America and the Zionist regime," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a meeting with Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has called on Iran to free all its political prisoners, in a speech obtained by Agence France Presse on Friday and delivered in Tehran on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit.

"I have urged the authorities during my visit this time to release opposition leaders, human rights defenders, journalists and social activists to create the conditions for free expression and open debate," Ban said, according to the text of the address delivered late Thursday to an Iranian diplomats' college.

Israeli security forces evacuated and demolished two dwellings in the wildcat settlement of Ramat Migron during the night, a police spokeswoman said Friday.

This comes ahead of the planned evacuation of nearby Migron, the largest wildcat settlement in the occupied West Bank.

Turkey will keep up its diplomatic efforts to protect refugees within the Syrian territory, despite the lack of an agreement at the U.N. Security Council, a Turkish diplomat told Agence France Presse Friday.

"We will continue to appeal to the international community to act," the diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity.