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Official: Syria fires Scud missiles at rebels
Syrian government forces have fired Scud missiles at insurgents in recent days, escalating the 2-year-old conflict against rebels seeking to overthrow ...
US hesitant in condemning North Korean launch
The Obama administration is drawing no "red line" for North Korea after a successful long-range rocket test, tempering the public condemnation to ...
Mali gets new prime minister after forced ouster
Mali's interim president has named a replacement prime minister after soldiers behind a coup earlier this year forced out his predecessor and placed ...
Egypt's opposition urges "no" vote in referendum
Egypt's opposition called on its followers Wednesday to vote "no" in a crucial referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters ...
US, Syria opposition disagree over terrorist label
The U.S. and the head of the new Syrian opposition coalition being feted at a conference in Morocco Wednesday publicly disagreed over designating a ...
Egypt political crisis threatens to worsen economy
Egypt's political crisis is threatening to plunge its ailing economy even deeper into distress after the government delayed a request for a $4.
Blast at Syrian regime building in capital kills 5
Three bombs collapsed walls in the Syrian Interior Ministry building Wednesday in Damascus, killing at least five people, as rebels fighting to ...
Civil war splits Syria's artists
Syrian filmmaker Joud Said was planning to attend the world premiere of his latest work at the Dubai International Film Festival when the bad news ...
Panetta in Afghanistan to meet with Karzai
President Barack Obama will decide shortly how many U.S. troops he wants to keep in Afghanistan after the U.S.-led coalition military mission ends in ...
Cops, British Army guided Belfast lawyer's killing
British police and army agents planted inside Northern Ireland's major Protestant gang played a pivotal role in assassinating a Belfast attorney, a ...
UN court convicts Bosnian Serb of genocide
A U.N. war crimes court convicted a former senior Bosnian Serb army commander Wednesday of genocide for playing a key role in Europe's worst massacre ...
Gaza's tunnels rebound from Israeli offensive
Rafah's biggest industry is back in business: Gazans are rebuilding the network of underground smuggling tunnels crisscrossing the Egyptian border ...
Chicago man gets 10 years in suicide-bomber plot
A Chicago man who pleaded guilty to a plot to attend a Somalia training camp with the dream of becoming a suicide bomber was sentenced Tuesday to ...
Obama: US recognizes Syria's main rebel group
President Barack Obama declared Syria's main opposition group the sole "legitimate representative" of its country's people Tuesday, deeming the move ...
Somali woman gets prison for terror support
A Somali-born woman has been sentenced in San Diego to eight years in prison for routing money to a terrorist organization in her native country. U.S.
2 Ala. men arrested on federal terrorism charges
Two Alabama men who federal investigators say wanted to wage violent jihad overseas have been arrested in Georgia on terrorism charges, and one has ...
Tunisian national strike averted after deal
Tunisia's government has reached an agreement with the country's leading labor union to avoid a nationwide strike over economic woes and power ...
Extremists among Syrian rebels who seized base
Syrian rebels including Islamic extremists took full control of a sprawling military base Tuesday after a bloody two-day battle that killed 35 ...
AP Exclusive: ACLU seeks OAS probe of Padilla case
A civil liberties group asked the Organization of American States' human rights commission Tuesday to investigate the U.S. government for what it says ...
Taliban popular where US fought biggest battle
Nearly three years after U.S.-led forces launched the biggest operation of the war to clear insurgents, foster economic growth and set a model for the ...
Egypt opposition fears violence from Brotherhood
They showed a military-style precision: Crowds of bearded Islamists proclaiming allegiance to Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi and chanting "God is ...
Winter brings more troubles for displaced Syrians
This tent camp sheltering Syrians uprooted by their country's brutal civil war has lost the race against winter: The ground under white tents is ...
Belfast leaders decry petrol-bomb attack on police
Leaders from across Northern Ireland appealed Tuesday for a week of angry, illegal Protestant street protests to end after a gang surrounded a ...
NY's top court: NYC gang member not a terrorist
Street gangsters who commit assaults and killings are not terrorists under the statute enacted after hijackers crashed jets into the World Trade ...
South Sudan army blamed in deaths of 23 civilians
South Sudan soldiers are being blamed for the deaths of up to 23 civilians in two separate regions in the world's newest country. A South Sudanese ...