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Putin urges peace talks to end Syria 'massacre'
President Vladimir Putin said the civil war in Syria has become "a massacre" that must be stopped through peace talks between the government and the ...
UN: 1.2 million Syria refugees in Jordan this year
The United Nations is predicting that the number of Syrian refugees in neighboring Jordan will more than double to 1.2 million by the end of this year
Syria warns Jordan over aiding rebels
Syria's regime sternly warned neighboring Jordan on Thursday that it was "playing with fire" by allowing the U.S. and other countries to train and arm ...
Prospects for arms treaty all but dead in Senate
Senate opponents of a treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade said Wednesday they have the votes to block ratification of the ...
Palestinian protester killed by Israeli army fire
Israeli forces shot and killed a teenage Palestinian protester during a clash in the West Bank late Wednesday, raising tensions already heightened by ...
Rebels capture military base in southern Syria
Syrian rebels captured a military base in the country's south on Wednesday after days of heavy fighting, activists said, in the latest advance by ...
Gunmen raid 4 newspaper offices in Baghdad
Gunmen suspected of being Shiite militiamen burst into the offices of four independent newspapers in Baghdad, smashing their equipment, stabbing and ...
Syrian forces pound rebel-held areas of Damascus
Syrian warplanes and artillery pounded opposition strongholds in Damascus and its suburbs Tuesday, as rebels in the northern city of Aleppo launched ...
Ex-ambassadors urge US, Russia to mend rift
The U.S. and Russia should overcome their cold spell by focusing on their common economic and security challenges, former diplomats to Moscow and ...
US restraint in Syria could aid Iran nuclear talks
President Barack Obama's reluctance to give military aid to Syrian rebels may be explained, in part, in three words: Iranian nuclear weapons. For the ...
6,000 Syrians killed in March, deadliest month yet
March was the bloodiest month yet in Syria's 2-year-old conflict with more than 6,000 documented deaths, a leading anti-regime activist group said ...
Syria accuses rebels of setting fire to oil wells
Heavy shelling in a neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo sent civilians fleeing for their lives on Sunday, and the state news agency accused ...
Shells from Syria strike Lebanese border villages
Lebanon's state news agency says shells fired from inside Syria have struck Lebanese border villages. The National News Agency said the shells ...
Syrian rebels enter strategic Aleppo neighborhood
Syrian rebels pushed into a strategic neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo after days of heavy clashes, seizing control of at least part of the ...
Pope refers to "Muslim brothers" on Good Friday
Pope Francis reached out in friendship to "so many Muslim brothers and sisters" during a Good Friday procession dedicated to the suffering of ...
Iraq says it will search more Syria-bound flights
Iraq says it will stop more aircraft moving through its airspace and vehicles traveling overland to search for weapons being sent to the Syrian civil ...
Putin attends military exercise in southern Russia
Thousands of Russian troops participated in a military exercise in the Black Sea on Friday, aimed at showcasing Russia's resurgent military might.
Iran, NKorea, Syria block UN arms trade treaty
Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked adoption of a U.N. treaty that would regulate the multibillion-dollar international arms trade for the first time, ...
France warns it's too early to arm Syrian rebels
France's president is backing off a push to arm Syrian rebels amid turmoil within Syria's opposition and concerns the weapons could fall into ...
Mortar shells strike Damascus, killing at least 10
Mortar shells crashed into an outdoor cafe at Damascus University on Thursday, killing at least 10 students in the deadliest of a rising number of ...
Russia criticizes Arab League move on Syria
Russia on Thursday harshly criticized the Arab League's recognition of the Syrian opposition as the only representative of the country, saying it ...
Israel sends more medics to border with Syria
Israel's military says it's beefing up medical teams along the border with Syria following several cases of wounded Syrians crossing the frontier to ...