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Syria troops fight rebels near major Shiite shrine
Hezbollah fighters joined Syrian forces in battling rebels in a Damascus suburb that is home to a revered Shiite Muslim shrine, in a push to secure ...
US, Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war
The Taliban and the U.S. said Tuesday they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan, as the ...
G-8 seeks unity on Syrian peace talks, tax evasion
President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other G-8 leaders attempted to speak with one voice Tuesday on seeking a negotiated ...
Iraqi suicide bombers hit Baghdad mosque, kill 34
Two suicide bombers targeted a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, one blowing himself up at a nearby checkpoint while the other slipped inside ...
A look at who is still held at Guantanamo
President Barack Obama has appointed a new envoy to lead a renewed effort to close the detention center at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Killing of 4 Shiites in Lebanon deepens tension
Four Shiite Lebanese men were killed Sunday in an ambush in a volatile area by the border with Syria, hiking already high sectarian tensions and ...
Series of attacks kill 51 people across Iraq
A blistering string of apparently coordinated bombings and a shooting across Iraq killed at least 51 and wounded dozens Sunday, spreading fear ...
Putin, Cameron still hopeful on Syria peace talks
The leaders of Britain and Russia said Sunday they're hopeful that Syria's warring factions can hammer out their differences at upcoming peace talks ...
Officials: NSA programs broke plots in 20 nations
Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security ...
Al-Qaida's Iraq head defies boss over Syria fight
The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's central command to stop claiming control over the ...
By arming Syria rebels, US drawn into proxy war
President Barack Obama's decision to begin arming Syria's rebels deepens U.S. involvement in a regional proxy war that is increasingly being fought ...
Reaction cool to US arms plan for Syrian rebels
The Obama administration hopes its decision to give lethal aid to Syrian rebels will prompt other nations to beef up assistance, now that the U.S.
Obama steps up military aid to Syrian rebels
President Barack Obama's authorization of military aid to the Syrian rebels "dramatically" increases U.S. support for the opposition, the White House ...
Mangled facts, secrecy brew confusion about NSA
Wondering what the U.S. government might know about your phone calls and online life? And whether all of this really helps find terrorists? Good luck ...
Officials: Obama aides split on arming rebels
Despite growing alarm over the Syrian government's military advances, Obama administration officials are split over whether to arm the country's rebel ...
Syrian extremist rebels raid Shiite village
Syrian rebels, including Sunni extremists, stormed a village and battled pro-regime militiamen, killing more than 60 Shiite fighters and civilians in ...
UN envoy: 'Streets are heating up' in south Yemen
The U.N. envoy to Yemen warned Tuesday that "the streets are heating up" in the country's restive south and pent-up resentment over more than two ...
Mali manual suggests al-Qaida has feared weapon
The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like Xeroxed, stapled handouts for a class. Except that the ...
NYC bomb plot details settle little in NSA debate
The Obama administration declassified a handful of details Tuesday that credited its PRISM Internet spying program with intercepting a key email that ...
Yemen government says attacks behind power outage
Attacks on power lines in Yemen caused a widespread blackout that has left several provinces and the country's capital without electricity for two ...
Iraq increasingly drawn into Syrian battlefield
Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq's slide into renewed deadly ...
Bombs hit Syrian capital amid regime offensive
Twin suicide bombers targeted a police station in the center of Damascus Tuesday, killing 14 people as regime forces aggressively pressed ahead with ...
News Summary: Civilian planes shot down by MANPADS
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is now thought to possess the SA-7, a surface-to-air missile in the category of MANPADS, or man-portable air-defense ...
Iraq hit by wave of bomb attacks, killing dozens
A wave of car bombings rocked central and northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and extending the deadliest eruption of violence to hit ...