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Syria: Bombing kills top pro-Assad Sunni preacher
A suicide bomb ripped through a mosque in the heart of the Syrian capital Thursday, killing a top Sunni Muslim preacher and outspoken supporter of ...
Cyprus court convicts Hezbollah member
A Cyprus criminal court found a Hezbollah member on Thursday guilty of helping to plan attacks on Israelis on the east Mediterranean Island in a ...
Syria regime, rebels want probe of chemical attack
Syria's government and rebels on Wednesday both demanded an international investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack, as the country's ...
Syrian opposition elects interim prime minister
Syria's opposition coalition early Tuesday elected a little-known American-educated IT manager and Islamic activist to head an interim government to ...
Report: Israel fires flares over Lebanon
Lebanon's state-run news agency says Israeli warplanes have violated Lebanese airspace. Lebanon's National News Agency says Israeli warplanes dropped ...
Tensions high in Lebanon after assault on clerics
Several hundred demonstrators angry over attacks against Sunni Muslim clerics blocked roads with garbage bins and burning tires in Beirut and other ...
Syria opposition to set up interim government
Syria's main opposition group is launching its most serious attempt yet to form a rival government to President Bashar Assad's regime, convening in ...
High-ranking Syrian general defects from army
One of the highest-ranking military officers yet to abandon Syrian President Bashar Assad defected to neighboring Jordan and said in an interview ...
UN: Syria refugee numbers jump 10 percent in week
The U.N. said Thursday that the number of registered Syrian refugees jumped 10 percent in the past week alone, part of what the U.N. commissioner for ...
Rights groups: Syrian rebels often kill captives
Syrian rebels routinely kill captured soldiers and suspected regime informers, human rights monitors said Thursday, warning of mounting war crimes ...
Mortar shells in Damascus kill 3, wound 50
Mortar shells struck a residential area in central Syria Wednesday, killing three people and wounding more than 50, including a number of women and ...
Syria's war affects generation of children
Mohammed works at a Beirut supermarket where he waits on customers and carries their groceries home for a small tip that the 14-year-old saves to send ...
Russia says Assad 'not bluffing' about staying put
Syrian President Bashar Assad "is not bluffing" about his determination to stay in power, Russia's foreign minister said in comments broadcast Friday, ...
Israel prepares for next war with Hezbollah
On a dusty field in Israel's southern desert, the military is gearing up for the next battle against a familiar foe: Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
Abduction illustrates UN vulnerability in Syria
New video Thursday of U.N. peacekeepers held captive by Syrian rebels illustrates the sudden vulnerability of a U.N. force that had patrolled a ...
Syrian refugees top 1 million, rebels take city
Syria's accelerating humanitarian crisis hit a grim milestone Wednesday: The number of U.N.-registered refugees topped 1 million — half of them ...
Syrian jets bomb northern city overrun by rebels
Syrian jets bombed opposition-held buildings Tuesday in the strategic northern city of Raqqa, a day after rebels overran the onetime regime stronghold ...
Jordan's king urges help for Syrian refugees
Jordan's King Abdullah II has called on world nations to help Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon shoulder "the tremendous burden" of caring for hundreds of ...
Syrian rebel put his dreams on hold in civil war
Abdullah Qadi stood apart from his fellow rebel fighters — an educated young man from a poor farming town who managed to make it through veterinary ...
AP INTERVIEW: Iraq PM warns Syria war could spread
Iraq's prime minister warned Wednesday that a victory for rebels in the Syrian civil war would create a new extremist haven and destabilize the wider ...
Fierce clashes near landmark mosque in Syria
Syrian rebels battled government troops near a landmark 12th century mosque in the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, while fierce clashes raged ...
As atrocities pile up, Syrians collect evidence
Syrian activist Yashar hopes the security agents who tormented him during five months of detention will one day be put on trial. In detention, he ...