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.

Gunmen kidnapped a Turkish tourist bus driver in southern Yemen on Wednesday to apply pressure on the authorities to release a fellow tribesman, an official in Abyan province said.

He said the driver, returning with his empty vehicle from Mukala, the capital of Hadramaut province, was intercepted in the Abyan town of Shakla.

The U.N. Security Council and U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday hit out at the killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya as "unjustifiable."

The 15-nation council put aside divisions over the NATO military action in Libya and the Syria conflict to agree on a statement condemning the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi "in the strongest terms."