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Correction: Syria-Sanctions Weapon story
In a story Aug. 13 about economic sanctions, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 2000. The invasion ...
Rebel video claims to show captured Syrian pilot
Syrian rebels circulated dramatic video Monday of what they claimed was the downing of a warplane and armed men later holding the captured pilot who ...
Al-Qaida claims attack on Iraq security HQ
Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq claimed responsibility Monday for a double bombing that targeted a counterterrorism unit in Baghdad last month. The al-Qaida ...
Syrian diplomat at UN in Geneva joins opposition
A Syrian diplomat working at the United Nations in Geneva has joined his country's opposition after deciding he can no longer represent President ...
Syrian opposition leader calls for no-fly zone
The head of Syria's main opposition group in exile called Sunday for international powers to impose a no-fly zone in border areas to protect civilians ...
Rebels carve out large enclave in north Syria
Residents of this north Syrian border town like to snap photos of their children atop the tank parked downtown, one of more than a dozen captured or ...
Blasts, gunfire hit Damascus in blow to Assad
Gunmen detonated back-to-back roadside bombs and clashed with police in central Damascus Saturday in attacks that caused no damage but highlighted the ...
US, Turkey plan for worst-case scenarios in Syria
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Turkey's foreign minister said Saturday that their countries are creating a formal structure to ...
Female Syrian Olympic hurdler DQ'd for doping
A female hurdler from Syria was kicked out of the London Olympics on Saturday after failing a drug test. The IOC said 400-meter hurdler Ghfran ...
US officials: al-Qaida gaining foothold in Syria
Al-Qaida has advanced beyond isolated pockets of activity in Syria and now is building a network of well-organized cells, according to U.S.
Syrian rebels low on guns as regime strikes Aleppo
Syrian rebels were running low on ammunition and guns Friday as government forces tried to consolidate their control over Aleppo, the country's ...
UK offers more nonlethal aid to Syria's opposition
Britain's government is giving an extra 5 million pounds (US$7.8 million) worth of aid to Syria's opposition, supplying items including communications ...
Iraq's Kurds seek greater clout through oil policy
Iraq's minority Kurds are upping the ante with their go-it-alone oil policy, luring some of Big Oil's biggest players and again challenging Iraq's ...
Nearly 150,000 Syrian refugees seek UN help
A rising tide of civilians fleeing Syria's violence is hitting four neighboring countries where almost 150,000 are being helped in camps run by the U.
Iran tries to calm Syria crisis as violence rages
As Syrian forces struggled to drive rebels from the country's largest city, the regime's key ally Iran tried Thursday to start an alternative ...
Syria captive rift: Iran defiant, Hezbollah silent
It took just minutes for Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah chief to appear on TV to silence protests after Syrian rebels grabbed 11 Lebanese Shiites in May
French military medics head to Syrian border
A team of French military doctors headed to the Syria-Jordan border on Thursday to set up a mobile hospital to treat refugees fleeing Syrian violence ...
Syrian refugee camps swell as frustrations rise
His two-story house with a garden became a military post when government forces moved into his village in northeastern Syria. More than a year has ...
Syrian troops push into Aleppo to oust rebels
Syria launched a ground assault Wednesday on rebel-held areas of the besieged city of Aleppo, the center of battles between government forces and ...
Iraqi officials say car bomb kills 11
A car bomb killed 11 people when it exploded shortly after sunset Wednesday near a gathering of Shiite Muslims south of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said, ...
Defecting Syrian PM arrives in Jordan after hiding
Syria's prime minister completed his defection by crossing into Jordan at dawn Wednesday after two days of hiding inside his homeland, according to ...
Report: 2,400 Syrians cross into Turkey
Some 2,400 people crossed into Turkey overnight to escape the escalating violence in Syria, Turkey's state-run news agency reported Wednesday, as ...
In scenarios for a post-Assad Syria, fear of chaos
Standing just a few strides from the Syrian border, an Iraqi was mingling with Syrian rebel units outside their camp here, trying to find one that ...