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Angelina Jolie pushes plight of refugees in Iraq
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is in Iraq meeting with leaders about the plight of an estimated 50,000 refugees who fled to escape violence in Syria.
Jolie fears for Syrian refugees in winter
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie says that with winter approaching, she is concerned about the plight of hundreds of thousands of Syrians forced to flee ...
Arab protests puts foreign policy at the fore
His sights fixed firmly on securing a second term, President Barack Obama had hoped that the rest of the world would wait until after the election if ...
Syria rebel: Sunni jihadists after Shiite hostages
A Syrian rebel commander holding 10 Lebanese Shiites hostage said Thursday he is willing to release the men but fears doing so could set off a wave ...
New envoy to Syria says crisis getting worse
The diplomat tasked with ending Syria's civil war said that the conflict is worsening on Thursday, the same day he travelled to the country for the ...
Jolie visits Syrian refugees in Turkey
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie met with Syrian refugees in Turkey on Thursday to draw attention to the plight of the hundreds of thousands who have ...
Pope's Lebanon visit made urgent by Syria's war
The brutal civil war in Syria and the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya have given a sense of urgency to Pope Benedict XVI's trip this week to ...
Blast in northern Syria targets troops
An explosion targeting Syrian regime forces killed at least three people in northern Syria on Wednesday — and possibly up to 18 — amid rising violence ...
Filipinos flee war in Syria with tales of horror
Filipino Ruth Pana remembered the windows of her employer's house in Damascus riddled with bullets. The maid, who escaped first to the Philippine ...
Egypt trying to persuade Iran to drop Assad
Newly activist Egypt is trying to convince Iran to drop its unquestioned support of Syria's embattled President Bashar Assad in order to end that ...
Wounded flood hospitals in Syria's largest city
It had been a calm day in Aleppo's Shifa Hospital, said Dr. Osman al-Haj Osman, his face etched with exhaustion from just three hours of sleep.
Jolie hears 'horrific' accounts of Syrian refugees
Her eyes welling up with tears, actress Angelina Jolie said she heard "horrific" and "heartbreaking" accounts from Syrian refugees she met Tuesday ...
Police officer killed in Turkey suicide attack
A suicide bomber threw a hand grenade and then blew himself up at the entrance to a police station in Turkey's biggest city, killing a police officer ...
Lebanese army says it frees 4 abducted Syrians
The Lebanese army freed in an overnight raid four Syrian hostages who were abducted last month by a powerful Shiite Muslim clan, the military said ...
Obama backs effort to recover Arab Spring assets
U.S. President Barack Obama reaffirmed American support Tuesday for Arab Spring nations seeking to recover possibly billions of dollars in assets ...
Obama and Romney: Where they stand on the issues
A look at where Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney stand on a selection of issues: ABORTION and BIRTH ...
Egypt hosts meeting of 4 nations in new Syria push
Diplomats from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt held on Monday the first gathering of a quartet of regional heavyweights aiming to work out a ...
Syrian defector says opposition can win
Syria's most prominent defector said in an interview that aired Monday that he opposes any foreign military intervention in the country's civil war ...
Syrian countryside gives vital support to rebels
When the uprising against President Bashar Assad started, Fatima Zahra gave up her life as a dressmaker in a small town in northern Syria and began ...
Angelina Jolie in Jordan to visit Syrian refugees
The U.N. refugee agency says its special envoy, actress Angelina Jolie, is in Jordan to visit Syrians who fled the civil war in their country.
UN rights chief cites problems in Syria, Bahrain
The U.N.'s top rights official laid out the world's most significant human rights issues Monday, criticizing Syria and Bahrain but also mentioning ...
Car bomb kills 17 in north Syrian city of Aleppo
A car bomb ripped through Syria's largest city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 40 in one of the main battlegrounds of the ...
Sierra Leone takes 10 Iranian ships off register
Sierra Leone has removed the registration of 10 ships suspected to be Iranian. Alhaji Wuroh Jalloh, executive director of the Sierra Leone Maritime ...
Iran visit by Egypt leader still stirs debate
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's visit to Iran last month is still stirring debate in the Iranian parliament. Lawmaker Ali Mohammad Bozorgvari ...
Clinton: Deep differences with Russia on Syria
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday acknowledged deep differences with Russia over how to handle the crisis in Syria, saying she ...