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US, UN grapple for workable peace plan in Syria
The United States and the U.N.'s new Syria mediator grappled for a new strategy Tuesday toward stopping 18 months of brutal government crackdowns and ...
Attack by Iran's Ahmadinejad sparks Israel walkout
Iran's president called Israel a nuclear-armed "fake regime" shielded by the United States, prompting Israel's U.N. ambassador to walk out of a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Pakistan to talk counterterrorism with US, Afghans
Pakistan's foreign minister revealed Thursday that her country would soon hold confidential talks with the United States and Afghanistan to improve ...
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 forces, rebels clash near Turkey
Fierce clashes broke out Tuesday between Syrian rebels and regime forces battling for control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey, and ...
Syrian war looms over UN meeting of world leaders
Hovering over this month's annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations is the international community's failure to end the escalating war ...
Somalia: Militants said to leave last stronghold
Fighters from Somalia's Islamist extremist rebels have started to leave their remaining coastal stronghold in the face of advancing allied African ...
Violence erupts at protests of anti-Muslim film
Fury over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world Friday, with deadly clashes near Western embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, an American ...
UN meeting rebukes Iran's nuclear defiance
The 35-nation board of the U.N. nuclear agency overwhelmingly rebuked Iran on Thursday for refusing to heed demands that it take actions to diminish ...
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 ...
Russia rebuffs Clinton on Syria, Iran penalties
Russia on Saturday soundly rejected U.S. calls for increased pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad to relinquish power. U.S. Secretary of State ...
Nuke talk questions await Iranian president at UN
As Iran's president crafts his talking points for his annual trip to New York, one message is likely to remain near the top: Tehran has not closed the ...
Confusion in Mali, after request for military help
Days have passed since Mali's interim government made a formal request to neighboring nations for military help to try to take back the country's ...
Islamic radicalism hits ancient city of Mombasa
Hardline Muslim clerics. Young people who feel marginalized. Suspicions that police are responsible for the killings and forced disappearances of ...
France giving aid to rebel-held Syrian cities
France has started providing direct aid and money to five rebel-held Syrian cities as it intensifies efforts to weaken President Bashar Assad, in the ...
Turkey accuses Syria of 'state terrorism'
Turkey accused Syria of "state terrorism" Wednesday after a sharp spike in the death toll from the Syrian civil war, and Iran came under new scrutiny ...
Clinton, China haven't narrowed gaps on Syria, sea
Talks between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chinese leaders Wednesday failed to narrow gaps on how to end the crisis in Syria and ...
Congo wants UN force to 'neutralize' rebels
Congo said it wants the U.N. peacekeeping force in the African country to "neutralize" a new rebel movement and a force that helped perpetrate ...
Syrian rebels launch major offensive in Aleppo
A rebel unit of army defectors launched a major offensive against security facilities in Syria's largest city of Aleppo, and anti-regime forces ...
AP Analysis: Syria diplomacy stalls over safe zone
Turkey's non-starter call for a humanitarian safe zone inside Syria offers the clearest sign yet that diplomacy to end the bloodshed in the most ...
Turkey appeals to UN council for Syria safe zone
Turkey appealed to a reluctant UN Security Council Thursday for a safe haven for thousands of Syrians facing a "humanitarian disaster" as Britain and ...
Egypt leader in Iran: World must back Syria rebels
In a sweeping message that Iran is on the wrong side of Syria's civil war, Egypt's new president urged the world Thursday to support the rebels ...