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 ...
Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq
Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight ...
S. Sudan: Doctors Without Borders hospital ruined
The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says one of its medical facilities located in a rural but violent region of South Sudan has been ...
Report: Bahrain police search home of top cleric
A main opposition group in Bahrain says police have searched the home of the Gulf nation's most senior Shiite cleric, who has strongly sided with ...
Egypt police close Gaza border to protest kidnap
Dozens of disgruntled border policemen forced the closure of Egypt's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the abduction of ...
CIA chief makes unannounced Israel visit
An Israeli defense official says the head of the American CIA spy agency has made an unannounced visit to Israel. The official says CIA chief John ...
Beckham's role after retirement to remain global
After David Beckham's long and distinguished soccer career ends on an artificial turf field in northwestern France, his life promises to be perhaps ...
Coptic cleric says he will sue Israeli police
An Egyptian Coptic cleric who was mistreated during Orthodox Easter services is threatening to sue. Video supplied to The Associated Press shows ...
Syria ex-minister leads rebuilding plan
A six-member U.N. team led by a former Syrian planning minister is drawing up a comprehensive postwar reconstruction plan even as the country's civil ...
Soldier gets life without parole in Iraq killings
An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress ...
UN: 3 peacekeepers abducted between Israel-Syria
Armed men broke into a U.N. outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria and abducted three U.N military observers, the U.N.
Syrian troops flush out rebels from prison
Syrian government troops on Thursday flushed out rebels who had stormed a prison compound in the northern city of Aleppo in a bid to free hundreds of ...
US, Turkey project united front on Syria
President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan projected a united front Thursday on Syria, keeping stark differences about how ...
UN: 14 Iranian exiles moved from Iraq to Albania
The first exiles from an Iranian opposition group have moved to Albania from a camp near Baghdad as part of a relocation process, the United Nations ...
Canada PM on pipeline plan: Oil to come anyway
A controversial oil pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast "absolutely needs to go ahead," Canada's prime minister said Thursday, and he warned that the oil ...
Congress rethinks 9/11 law on military force
Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how ...
7 Egyptian security personnel abducted in Sinai
Suspected militants in Egypt's Sinai abducted seven security personnel as they headed to Cairo for holidays early Thursday, security officials said.
US sanctions on 4 Syrian ministers, rebel leader
The Obama administration has added four Syrian government ministers to a U.S. terror blacklist as well as the leader of an al-Qaida-linked ...
Airlines losses narrowed in 1Q to $552 million
U.S. airlines charged more in fares and fees and reduced debt as they improved their financial performance in the first quarter. They still lost ...
Turkish PM talks Syria with Obama at White House
President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and Turkey will keep ramping up pressure to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, but ...
Watchdog: Israel trying to legalize settlements
An Israeli watchdog group on Thursday accused the government of taking steps to legalize four unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank, days ...
Correction: New Virus story
In a story May 15 about a new SARS-like virus spreading from patients to health care workers in Saudi Arabia, The Associated Press reported ...
Car bombs, shooting in Iraq leave 21 dead
Car bombs hit Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital for the second day in a row on Thursday, part of a series of attacks across the country that ...
Saudi officials expand labs to track deadly virus
Saudi Arabia says it has dedicated nine additional laboratories to help investigators track a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS that ...
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