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Syrian refugees clash with Jordanian police
Angry over harsh living conditions in their desert tent camp in Jordan, dozens of Syrian refugees clashed with Jordanian police, hurled stones and ...
Iran's president dismisses threats on nuke program
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday dismissed threats of military action against Iran's nuclear program, arguing that his country's ...
UN envoy: Syria war is threatening the region
Syria's civil war is worsening and there is no prospect of a quick end to the violence, international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Monday in a gloomy ...
Winter onset latest challenge for Syrian civilians
The days are still warm across the fertile plains of northern Syria around Aleppo, but night brings a chill — an ominous harbinger of winter's ...
UN: 1.5 million Syrians in need of food aid
The number of Syrians in need of food aid has jumped from 250,000 in April to 1.5 million today, the head of the U.N.'s food agency said Monday, as ...
Syrian opposition figures meet in Damascus
Syrian opposition figures who reject foreign intervention in Syria's 18-month conflict called for the ouster of President Bashar Assad at a rare ...
Lebanese Christian leader says escaped assassin
The leader of Lebanon's largest Christian bloc in parliament, which supports the Syrian-backed Shiite Hezbollah group, says he was the target of a ...
Correction: Syria story
In a story Sept. 22 about Syria, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a Syrian opposition conference headed by the National Coordination ...
Egypt president stresses Syria resolve
Egypt's president on Saturday stressed the need for his country to have a bigger role in international affairs, using his first local television ...
5 Iraqi soldiers killed in roadside bomb explosion
Five Iraqi soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb explosion north of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi officials said, as suspected Sunni militants, seeking ...
Arab League revitalized by Arab Spring revolts
Long thought of as a useless talk shop or stage for political theater, the Arab League is seeking to transform itself with the seismic changes from ...
Iraq bars Syria-bound plane with suspected arms
Iraq prevented a North Korean plane from entering its airspace on suspicion it was carrying weapons for Syria, prompting praise from the U.S.
In Lebanon, anti-film protests underscore divide
The urge to defend Islam's most unifying figure, the Prophet Muhammad, wasn't enough to bring together Lebanon's divided Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
Obama's record in Muslim world: strides, setbacks
Images of angry mobs in Arab cities burning American flags and attacking U.S. diplomatic posts suggest the Muslim world is no less enraged at the ...
West accuses Iran of shipping arms to Syria
The four Western powers trying to rein in Iran's nuclear program accused Tehran on Thursday of shipping arms to Syria in violation of U.N.
Syrian activists: airstrikes kill at least 30
Regime airstrikes hit a gas station in northern Syria Thursday, setting off a fiery explosion that killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens, ...
Rebels unite in fight for Syria's largest city
Rebels have taken a major stride in uniting their ranks in the battle for Syria's largest city, giving them hope they could tip the balance after ...
Allies use power of purse against Syrian regime
A coalition including the United States, the European Union and the Arab League met Thursday to plot new ways of isolating the regime of Syria's ...
Syrian TV: Helicopter crashes near Damascus
A Syrian military helicopter crashed in a rebellious suburb of Damascus on Thursday, state-run TV said, but the circumstances in which the aircraft ...
Extremists showing up on front lines in Syria
The bearded gunmen who surrounded the car full of foreign journalists in a northern Syrian village were clearly not Syrians. A heavyset man in a brown ...
Syrian rebels seize border crossing with Turkey
Syrian rebels seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey on Wednesday, ripping down the Syrian flag as the rebels fighting to ...
Iraq nominee says US pressing on use of airspace
President Barack Obama's choice for ambassador to Iraq said Wednesday that Baghdad is accepting Iranian assurances that it is not using Iraqi airspace ...
US lists 117 Iranian planes arming Syria's Assad
The Obama administration has identified 117 Iranian aircraft it says are ferrying weapons to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. The Treasury ...
Report: Syria aimed at Turkish jet with missile
Military prosecutors investigating the downing of a Turkish plane by Syria say initial findings show Syria targeted the plane with a long-range ...