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UN General Assembly denounces Syrian crackdown
The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly denounced Syria's crackdown on dissent Friday in a symbolic effort meant to push the deadlocked Security ...
Syria opposition plans for post-Assad era
The Syrian National Council is deep into organizing an alternative to the regime of President Bashar Assad that could include those already in state ...
Reuters says blogging platform hacked
The Reuters news agency said Friday that one of its websites had been hacked and used to disseminate fake stories about Syria's rebel movement, the ...
Syrian regime pleads with Russia for economic aid
Senior Syrian officials have pleaded with Russia for financial loans and supplies of oil products, a sign that the global fallout from President ...
Mortars kill at least 20 in Damascus refugee camp
Mortars rained down on a crowded marketplace in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital, killing at least 20 people as regime forces and ...
Annan quits as Syrian envoy, blames lack of unity
Kofi Annan announced his resignation Thursday as peace envoy to Syria and issued a blistering critique of world powers, bringing to a dramatic end a ...
Syrian rebels accused of executions, other abuses
The unsteady, hand-held video shows several bloodied prisoners, one in boxer shorts, being led into a noisy outdoor crowd and placed against a wall.
Cameron takes Putin to watch Olympic judo
They held talks, then it ended in a fight. Prime Minister David Cameron joined Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Olympic judo competition ...
Rebels use captured tank against Syrian forces
Syrian rebels on Thursday bombarded a military air base in Aleppo using a tank captured from government troops as activists reported that the regime ...
Panetta, Jordan's king agree Assad must step down
A spokesman for U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the Pentagon chief and Jordan's King Abdullah agree that Syrian leader Bashar Assad must give ...
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 ...
Where's Assad? Mystery deepens about Syrian leader
Syrian President Bashar Assad urged his military Wednesday to boost its fight against rebels, but his written call to arms only deepened a mystery ...
Syrian refugees grow impatient with top defectors
Syrians hoping for a swift rebel victory in their homeland are growing impatient with top army defectors who are staying in Turkey even after fighters ...
EYES ON LONDON: Boris dangles, a badminton scandal
Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you: ___ THE ...
Syria's Aleppo running low on food amid siege
Food and cooking gas were in short supply and power cuts plunged homes into darkness as soldiers and rebels battled Tuesday to tip the scales in the ...
Obama, Romney and their foreign policy highlights
Thanks to Mitt Romney's overseas trip, foreign policy has had an airing in a presidential campaign dominated, as usual, by matters at home. For all ...
Panetta: Egypt's leaders promise full democracy
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta left meetings with Egypt's new leaders Tuesday with an optimistic outlook for the valuable American ally emerging ...
Syria rebels suspicious over defector's motives
Syria's most prominent defector has been touring regional powers to garner support for the uprising. But many in the opposition are deeply suspicious ...
Greece shifting many police guards to patrol duty
Greece plans to shift roughly half of its police officers who are used for guard duty to crime-fighting efforts in cities instead, the national police ...
Officials: Detained Syrian wanted German intel job
A suspected Syrian spy who was arrested in Germany earlier this year once tried to infiltrate the country's intelligence services, officials said ...
UN, aid groups struggle to help Syrian refugees
The U.N. refugee agency says it has been unable to reach all 200,000 people fleeing the fighting in Aleppo, Syria's largest city. The agency's ...
Targeted in Syria civil war, Iraqis flee back home
When he saw the bodies of men and women left rotting in the streets of Damascus, Hassan Hadi knew that the sectarian violence he had fled Iraq to ...
Tens of thousands flee Syria's largest city
Smoking a cigarette outside a Turkish hospital near the Syrian border, a man in a gray gown and flip-flops held his sleeping 2-year-old daughter, Aya.
Greece toughens border policing over Syria war
Greece is quadrupling the number of guards at its border with Turkey and boosting other defenses in part because of a potential influx of Syrian ...