http://www.mail.com/locations/1526-syria.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/1526-syria.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/2099486-israel-returns-fire-shooting-syria.html JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says gunfire from Syria hit an Israeli patrol on the Golan Heights overnight, damaging a vehicle and prompting the troops to fire back. The military said on Tuesday that the Israeli troops reported a "direct hit" from the return fire but provided no further details. Sporadic fire from Syria's civil war has occasionall... Tue, 21 May 2013 07:05:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2099486-israel-returns-fire-shooting-syria.html 2013-05-21T07:05:39Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2097442-kerry-to-mideast-to-advance-struggling-syria-plan.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is headed back to the Middle East to press his case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Russia. Kerry left Washington on Monday for Oman where he will have discussions with the sultan of t... Mon, 20 May 2013 23:55:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2097442-kerry-to-mideast-to-advance-struggling-syria-plan.html 2013-05-20T23:55:34Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2097312-attacks-kill-95-iraq-hint-syrian-spillover.html BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria's civil war next door. The latest spiral of violence — which has claimed more than 240 lives in th... Mon, 20 May 2013 21:26:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2097312-attacks-kill-95-iraq-hint-syrian-spillover.html 2013-05-20T21:26:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2097268-hezbollah-pulled-deeply-syria-civil-war.html BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah was pulled more deeply into Syria's civil war as 28 guerrillas from the Lebanese Shiite militant group were killed and dozens more wounded while fighting rebels, Syria activists said Monday. The intense battle drove rebels from large parts of the town of Qusair, part of a withering government offensive aimed at securing a strategic... Mon, 20 May 2013 19:46:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2097268-hezbollah-pulled-deeply-syria-civil-war.html 2013-05-20T19:46:40Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2097536-gunfire-syria-hits-israeli-controlled-golan.html JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says gunfire from Syria has hit the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights overnight. The military said on Monday that the gunfire did not cause any damage or injuries. The military says it believes the fire was accidental. Israel has found itself in a difficult position as clashes from Syria's civil war rage near its front... Mon, 20 May 2013 10:26:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2097536-gunfire-syria-hits-israeli-controlled-golan.html 2013-05-20T10:26:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2095906-syrian-troops-push-strategic-rebel-held-town.html BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar Assad tried to strengthen his grip on a strategic strip of land running from the capital to the Mediterranean coast. With the regime scoring gains on the battlefield, the U.S. and Russia could f... Sun, 19 May 2013 19:08:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2095906-syrian-troops-push-strategic-rebel-held-town.html 2013-05-19T19:08:21Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2095982-un-chief-hopes-syria-conference-early-june.html MOSCOW (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is holding out hope that an international conference to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the Syrian civil war will be held in early June. The U.S. and Russia have agreed to try to bring the Syrian regime and opposition to the negotiating table, but no date has been set. Neither Syrian President Bashar Ass... Sun, 19 May 2013 10:32:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2095982-un-chief-hopes-syria-conference-early-june.html 2013-05-19T10:32:35Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2094834-assad-syria-transition-talks-internal-matter.html BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country's politics, raising new doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the country's civil war. In the capital Damascus, a car bo... Sat, 18 May 2013 20:55:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2094834-assad-syria-transition-talks-internal-matter.html 2013-05-18T20:55:44Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2094804-attacks-kill-16-iraq-8-police-kidnapped.html BAGHDAD (AP) — A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country. The shootings and bombings follow three days of attacks that killed 130 people in both Shiite and Sunni areas in sce... Sat, 18 May 2013 17:19:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2094804-attacks-kill-16-iraq-8-police-kidnapped.html 2013-05-18T17:19:06Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2092682-bombs-targeting-sunnis-kill-76-iraq.html BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could again be veering toward civil war. The attacks followed two days of bombings targeting Shiites, including bus s... Fri, 17 May 2013 20:36:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2092682-bombs-targeting-sunnis-kill-76-iraq.html 2013-05-17T20:36:42Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2093870-us-slams-russian-anti-ship-missiles-going-to-syria.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration denounced Russia on Friday for providing Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime with anti-ship missiles, saying the weapons would only worsen a war that Washington and Moscow have been promising to work together on stopping. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, criticized what he called an ... Fri, 17 May 2013 20:29:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2093870-us-slams-russian-anti-ship-missiles-going-to-syria.html 2013-05-17T20:29:43Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2092966-syrian-hackers-compromise-ft-blog-twitter-feeds.html LONDON (AP) — A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which has regularly targeted media organizations it sees as sympathetic to the country's rebels. A few of the FT's dozens of Twitter feeds and blogs... Fri, 17 May 2013 18:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2092966-syrian-hackers-compromise-ft-blog-twitter-feeds.html 2013-05-17T18:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2092520-report-torture-evidence-syrian-prisons.html BEIRUT (AP) — Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. Raqqa, in eastern Syria, was overrun in late February by rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. The ... Fri, 17 May 2013 18:31:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2092520-report-torture-evidence-syrian-prisons.html 2013-05-17T18:31:02Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2093274-rights-groups-syria-holds-thousands-incommunicado.html BEIRUT (AP) — About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off. That was a year ago. The young man, who had been providing aid to Syrians displaced by the country's civil war, was never heard ... Fri, 17 May 2013 15:46:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2093274-rights-groups-syria-holds-thousands-incommunicado.html 2013-05-17T15:46:25Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2093270-enforced-disappearances-worldwide.html The U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is pressing governments to provide information about open cases. Over the past two decades, it received nearly 54,000 cases, of which nearly 43,000 in 84 states remain unsolved. The number of cases is believed to be only a fraction of those who disappeared after being taken by security forces. ... Fri, 17 May 2013 15:45:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2093270-enforced-disappearances-worldwide.html 2013-05-17T15:45:37Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2093280-official-10-killed-explosion-turkey.html ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Officials say a container of fuel being smuggled into Turkey from Syria has exploded, killing 10 people. The governor's office in Hatay province said Friday's blast occurred in Tunisma village when the smuggler set the tank on fire after realizing Turkish security forces had rushed to the scene. Hatay is the Turkish border province w... Fri, 17 May 2013 15:44:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2093280-official-10-killed-explosion-turkey.html 2013-05-17T15:44:43Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2092712-cia-chief-unannounced-israel-visit.html JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli defense official says the head of the American CIA spy agency has made an unannounced visit to Israel. The official says CIA chief John Brennan met Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. He did not disclose other details. The official spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the visit with... Fri, 17 May 2013 09:15:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2092712-cia-chief-unannounced-israel-visit.html 2013-05-17T09:15:42Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2092478-syria-ex-minister-leads-rebuilding-plan.html BEIRUT (AP) — A six-member U.N. team led by a former Syrian planning minister is drawing up a comprehensive postwar reconstruction plan even as the country's civil war rages on with no apparent end in sight. A joint U.S.-Russian push to bring together Syria's political opposition and representatives of President Bashar Assad's regime to negotiate a peacef... Fri, 17 May 2013 07:08:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2092478-syria-ex-minister-leads-rebuilding-plan.html 2013-05-17T07:08:53Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2091918-un-3-peacekeepers-abducted-israel-syria.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Armed men broke into a U.N. outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria and abducted three U.N military observers, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday. Herve Ladsous told a group of reporters that the unarmed observers were held by the Syrian men for about five hours and released unharmed Wednesday morning. It was the ... Fri, 17 May 2013 00:37:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2091918-un-3-peacekeepers-abducted-israel-syria.html 2013-05-17T00:37:06Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091852-syrian-troops-flush-rebels-prison.html BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government troops on Thursday flushed out rebels who had stormed a prison compound in the northern city of Aleppo in a bid to free hundreds of political prisoners inside. The forced retreat was the latest setback for fighters seeking to topple President Bashar Assad, whose forces have been gaining ground in the country's civil war. In... Thu, 16 May 2013 22:25:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091852-syrian-troops-flush-rebels-prison.html 2013-05-16T22:25:37Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091626-us-turkey-project-united-front-syria.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan projected a united front Thursday on Syria, keeping stark differences about how much the U.S. should intervene behind closed doors as they looked to Russia and the global community to close ranks behind efforts to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad. Under a pair of um... Thu, 16 May 2013 21:43:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091626-us-turkey-project-united-front-syria.html 2013-05-16T21:43:50Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091308-canada-pm-pipeline-plan-oil-to.html NEW YORK (AP) — A controversial oil pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast "absolutely needs to go ahead," Canada's prime minister said Thursday, and he warned that the oil will be transported through America one way or another. Stephen Harper addressed the Keystone XL project, a flashpoint in the debate over climate change, during a visit to New York City. The ... Thu, 16 May 2013 20:38:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091308-canada-pm-pipeline-plan-oil-to.html 2013-05-16T20:38:19Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091516-congress-rethinks-911-law-military-force.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to target suspected terrorists with lethal drone strikes. Senior Pentagon officials insisted on Thursday that the law should remain unchanged as the... Thu, 16 May 2013 20:17:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091516-congress-rethinks-911-law-military-force.html 2013-05-16T20:17:14Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091426-us-sanctions-4-syrian-ministers-rebel-leader.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has added four Syrian government ministers to a U.S. terror blacklist as well as the leader of an al-Qaida-linked organization fighting President Bashar Assad's (bah-SHAR' AH'-sahd) regime. Thursday's actions highlight America's twin goals in Syria: It wants the Assad regime to end but doesn't want extremists tak... Thu, 16 May 2013 19:43:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091426-us-sanctions-4-syrian-ministers-rebel-leader.html 2013-05-16T19:43:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2090910-turkish-pm-talks-syria-with-obama-white-house.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and Turkey will keep ramping up pressure to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, but there's "no magic formula" to stop his violence. At a news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the White House Rose Garden, Obama says the only way to resolve the cri... Thu, 16 May 2013 19:30:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2090910-turkish-pm-talks-syria-with-obama-white-house.html 2013-05-16T19:30:50Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2086564-un-general-assembly-approves-syria-resolution.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly approved an Arab-backed resolution Wednesday calling for a political transition in Syria, but more than 70 countries refused to vote "yes" because of its support for the main opposition group and fears the resolution could torpedo a new U.S.-Russia effort to end the escalating conflict. The United States co-... Wed, 15 May 2013 23:13:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2086564-un-general-assembly-approves-syria-resolution.html 2013-05-15T23:13:21Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2086652-israel-mortar-shells-syria-hit-mt-hermon.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military says stray mortar shells from the fighting in Syria have struck a popular tourist site, Mt. Hermon in the Golan Heights. The military says the shells struck early on Wednesday, apparently landing on an empty ski slope. Mortar shells have landed in the Golan before but this was the first time they hit Mt. Hermon, a site p... Wed, 15 May 2013 07:32:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2086652-israel-mortar-shells-syria-hit-mt-hermon.html 2013-05-15T07:32:49Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2085584-attacks-lebanese-alawites-deepen-fears.html TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese members of the Syrian leader's Alawite sect fear their tiny community will be a casualty of the civil war raging in the neighboring country. Already, Sunni Muslim extremists have stoned a school bus, vandalized stores and beaten or stabbed a number of men in a wave of attacks against Lebanese Alawites, stoking fears of eve... Tue, 14 May 2013 20:04:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2085584-attacks-lebanese-alawites-deepen-fears.html 2013-05-14T20:04:23Z