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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 ...
Mideast ambitions: Turkey and Egypt seek alliance
The image of an Ottoman sultan glowered at the gridlock from a highway billboard in the Egyptian capital, hands clasped, his feathered headgear and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Amnesty: Indiscriminate attacks maiming Syrians
The Syrian government has carried out indiscriminate air bombardments and artillery strikes on residential areas that do not target opposition ...
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 ...
Egypt: Iran's support for Syria hinders relations
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi warned Iran's foreign minister on Tuesday that better relations between the two Mideast heavyweights are being ...
Analysis: Prophet film diverts gaze from Syria
For the embattled Syrian regime, the crudely produced film mocking Islam that has unleashed fury across the Muslim world could not have come at a ...
Lebanese Shiite clansmen charged over abductions
A military prosecutor in Lebanon has charged six members of a powerful Shiite Muslim clan with forming an armed group and kidnappings. Members of ...
New Syria envoy visits refugee camp in Turkey
The new international envoy tasked with ending the 18-month conflict in Syria visited a refugee camp in Turkey on Tuesday, saying that he hopes the ...
Mideast powers meet, seek Syria peace in Cairo
Mideast heavyweights had a first high-level meeting in Cairo on Monday as part of newly-formed quartet tasked to end Syria's civil war, cautioning ...
Syria accuses Turkey of allowing al-Qaida transit
Syria accused neighboring Turkey Sunday of allowing thousands of Muslim extremists to cross into its territory, as the government and opposition said ...
Iran's Guard admits advisers in Syria, Lebanon
The top commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard says the elite unit has high-level advisers in Lebanon and Syria but remains undecided on ...
Turkey seeks to relocate some Syrian refugees
Already host to 80,000 Syrians in refugee camps, Turkey is now seeking to relocate some of the tens of thousands of others living outside the shelters ...
Syria envoy says no plan to end violence yet
The new international envoy tasked with ending Syria's civil war summed up his first foray to Damascus Saturday with a startling and frank admission ...
US scrambles to rush spies, drones to Libya
The U.S. is sending more spies, Marines and drones to Libya, trying to speed the search for those who killed the U.S. ambassador and three other ...
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 ...