Hezbollah says it will keep fighting in Syria
Hezbollah's leader vowed Friday that his militants would keep fighting in Syria "wherever needed" after the U.S. agreed to arm the rebels in the civil ...
State laws varied on gun, abortion laws
The U.S. Supreme Court says women in America can terminate a pregnancy and that every citizen has an individual right to own a firearm, but those ...
More than 65 countries sign Arms Trade Treaty
More than 65 countries signed the landmark treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade Monday and the United States announced it will ...
US gun debate overlooks daily violence
Florena Carter's shattered life didn't make national news. Her son was killed on his 28th birthday in 2009. Carter's brother pulled the trigger.
Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons
Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other ...
Biden asks clergy to make moral argument on guns
Vice President Joe Biden wants pastors, rabbis and nuns to tell their flocks that enacting gun control is the moral thing to do. But another vote may ...
Chicago case alleges ties to North Korea
A Taiwanese businessman long suspected of ties to North Korea and his son have been charged in Chicago with seeking to bypass a U.S. ban on the export ...
UN urges Syria to let in chemical weapons experts
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Syria again Monday to allow experts into the country without delay or conditions to investigate allegations ...
High court rejects challenge to NY gun law
The Supreme Court is staying out of the gun debate for now. The justices on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a strict New York law that makes ...
Boost for background checks: Senators compromise
Conservative senators from both parties announced their support for expanding background checks for gun buyers Wednesday, giving a burst of momentum ...
Obama applauds deal on gun sales background checks
President Barack Obama is welcoming a bipartisan deal in the Senate to expand background checks for gun sales. Obama says it's not his bill and he ...
Serbia mourns 13 killed in shooting rampage
Serbia held a national day of mourning Wednesday as police searched for possible motives in the Balkan nation's worst peacetime shooting massacre, ...
Senate showdown vote on gun curbs set for Thursday
The Senate's top Democrat has set Congress' first showdown vote for Thursday on President Barack Obama's gun control drive as a small but mounting ...
Yugoslav wars left population heavily armed
The wars from 1991 to 1999 as Yugoslavia broke up took up to 200,000 lives, turned millions into refugees and left much of the region's people ...
Suicide blast in Syrian capital kills at least 15
A suicide car bomber struck Monday in the financial heart of Syria's capital, killing at least 15 people, damaging the nearby central bank and ...
Democrats bring gun control bill to Senate floor
Democrats have brought gun control legislation to the Senate floor amid a threat from conservative Republican senators to use delaying tactics to ...
UN: Chemical investigators ready to go to Syria
U.N. experts are ready to move into Syria immediately to investigate reported chemical weapons attacks but President Bashar Assad's government still ...
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 ...
NRA study suggests trained, armed school staffers
The Senate gun control debate on the near horizon, a National Rifle Association-sponsored report on Tuesday proposed a program for schools to train ...
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, ...
Swedish expert to lead weapons probe in Syria
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday appointed a Swedish professor who was a U.N. chemical weapons inspector in Iraq and now works at a research ...
Diplomats: Ban says info 'crucial' in Syria probe
Information provided by Syria, Britain and France on alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria will be "crucial" in deciding the scope of the ...
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