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Hezbollah-backed Lebanese Shiites fight in Syria
Masked men in camouflage toting Kalashnikov rifles fan out through a dusty olive grove, part of a group of Hezbollah-backed fighters from Lebanon who ...
Activists: Syrian regime airstrikes kill 25
Syrian government warplanes carried out airstrikes on a rebellious neighborhood in the capital and a village in the country's northeast on Sunday, ...
Iraq reports searching Syrian plane; no arms found
An Iraqi aviation official says authorities ordered a Damascus-bound Syrian plane transiting Iraqi airspace to land for inspection, but that no ...
Activists say Syrian airstrike kills 20 people
A Syrian government airstrike on a town in the country's northwest killed at least 20 people Saturday, shattering store fronts, setting cars ablaze ...
Syrian troops widen offensive in border areas
Syrian soldiers backed by warplanes battled rebels for control of strategic hilltop villages near the Lebanese border on Friday, as government troops ...
US team using Twitter, Facebook to fight militants
The U.S. official who oversees American efforts to counter al-Qaida and other militants in the online battlefield keeps a quote on his desk from a ...
Lavrov: Russia would back NKorea talks in Geneva
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday his nation would welcome a fresh round of talks on Swiss soil over North Korea's nuclear program, ...
Syrian troops launch counterattack on south
Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive in the south, capturing a town and killing at least 45 people including women and children, ...
Obama: Situation in Syria at a 'critical juncture'
President Barack Obama says the situation in Syria has reached, in his words, a "critical juncture." A civil war that has raged in Syria for more than ...
Syrian regime's air power keeps rebels in check
President Bashar Assad has exploited his greatest advantage in the Syrian civil war — his air power — to push back rebel advances and prevent the ...
G-8 foreign ministers slam NKorea rhetoric
Foreign ministers from the G-8 nations on Thursday condemned North Korea's aggressive rhetoric and the development of its nuclear missile programs, ...
Iraq inspects 3rd Iranian plane to Syria this week
An Iraqi official says the country has forced an Iranian plane headed to Syria to land in Baghdad so authorities could search it for arms. It's the ...
Tensions emerge in al-Qaida alliance in Syria
Tensions emerged Wednesday in a newly announced alliance between al-Qaida's franchise in Iraq and the most powerful Syrian rebel faction, which said ...
US expected to increase aid to Syrian rebels
The Obama administration is expected to give Syrian rebels broader nonlethal military assistance, including body armor and night-vision goggles, while ...
Syrian rebel group pledges allegiance to al-Qaida
The leader of the most formidable rebel group in Syria pledged allegiance Wednesday to al-Qaida but distanced himself from a claim that his Islamic ...
Second camp for Syrian refugees opens in Jordan
Struggling to cope with the influx of Syrian refugees, Jordan on Wednesday opened a second camp for Syrians fleeing the civil war at home. The kingdom ...
Israel charges Arab who fought with Syria's rebels
Israel has arrested and charged an Israeli Arab for traveling to the "enemy state" of Syria to fight on the side of the rebels in the neighboring ...
Kerry meeting with Syrian opposition in London
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with Syrian opposition leaders and Russia's top diplomat a day after saying the U.S. could soon step up ...
Syrian militant group unites with al-Qaida in Iraq
Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq and the most powerful rebel extremist group in Syria have officially joined ranks against President Bashar Assad to forge ...
Suicide blast in Syrian capital kills at least 15
A suicide car bomber struck Monday in the financial heart of Syria's capital, killing at least 15 people, damaging the nearby central bank and ...
Egypt suspends tourist flights with Iran
Egypt has suspended tourist flights from Iran following an outcry from hard-line Sunni Muslims angered about visitors from the mostly Shiite country, ...
UN: Chemical investigators ready to go to Syria
U.N. experts are ready to move into Syria immediately to investigate reported chemical weapons attacks but President Bashar Assad's government still ...
Major bombings since Syrian uprising began in 2011
A list of some of the major bombings in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March 2011: —April 8: A car bomb ...
Iraq forces Iranian plane bound for Syria to land
Iraqi authorities forced an Iranian plane to land on Monday so it could be searched for weapons bound for Syrian regime fighters, but they found only ...
Syrian regime launches counteroffensive on rebels
After weeks of rebel gains in the south, the Syrian regime launched a counteroffensive on Sunday with widespread airstrikes and an operation that ...