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Syrian forces bombard rebel areas near capital
Syrian government warplanes and artillery pounded restive suburbs of Damascus on Friday and anti-regime activists said a car bomb targeted an ...
New child soldier fears in C. African Republic
The U.N. children's agency says it's concerned about a growing number of children being recruited by armed groups in Central African Republic as ...
Different challenges in Central African Rep., Mali
Two land-locked, desperately poor African countries are gripped by rebellions in the north that have left huge chunks of both nations outside of ...
Turkey: Military will keep fighting rebel Kurds
Turkey will press ahead with military operations against autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels even as Turkish officials hold talks with the rebels' jailed ...
New law points to Philippine church's waning sway
Twenty-six years after Roman Catholic leaders helped his mother marshal millions of Filipinos in an uprising that ousted a dictator, President Benigno ...
Rebel area shows limits of rebel push for Damascus
Twin airstrikes by government jets on a large, rebel-held suburb of Damascus on Thursday sheered the sides off apartment towers and left residents ...
Egypt panel implicates Mubarak, military in deaths
An Egyptian fact-finding mission determined that Hosni Mubarak watched the uprising against him unfold through a live TV feed at his palace, despite ...
UN says more than 60,000 dead in Syrian civil war
The United Nations gave a grim new count Wednesday of the human cost of Syria's civil war, saying the death toll has exceeded 60,000 in 21 months — ...
Egypt prosecutors investigate popular TV comedian
Egyptian prosecutors launched an investigation on Tuesday against a popular television satirist for allegedly insulting the president in the latest ...
Clashes in Syria shut down Aleppo airport
Clashes between government troops and rebels on Tuesday forced the international airport in Aleppo to stop all flights in and out of Syria's largest ...
Central African Republic rebels ignore negotiation
President Francois Bozize's government came under growing threat Monday as rebels vowing to overthrow him rejected appeals from the African Union to ...
Protester shot in Cairo may have been targeted
Gunmen drove into Cairo's Tahrir Square before dawn Monday and fired at an anti-government sit-in, seriously wounding a protester who had been jailed ...
North African nations take different reform routes
Two years after an itinerant Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire to protest government injustice and ignited uprisings across the Middle East, ...
African Union head visits Central African Republic
The leader of the African Union, Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi, has proposed a government of national unity to resolve the rebel conflict in ...
International envoy warns of failed state in Syria
The international envoy seeking to end Syria's civil war warned Sunday that the failure of the government and the rebels to pursue a political ...
Syrian airline cancels flight to Aleppo
Syria's national airline canceled a flight to Aleppo on Saturday because of fighting near its international airport, while the United Nations top ...
Central African Republic rebels take another city
Rebels continued their advance on Saturday, seizing the city of Sibut, 185 kilometers (114 miles) from Bangui, the capital, a government official ...
Rebels besiege airports in northern Syria
Syrian rebels stepped up their siege of a government helicopter base and clashed with soldiers near Aleppo's international airport on Friday, part of ...
AP IMPACT: Ordinary folks losing faith in stocks
Andrew Neitlich is the last person you'd expect to be rattled by the stock market. He once worked as a financial analyst picking stocks for a mutual ...
UN envoy, Moscow call for revival of Syria plan
Russia and the U.N called Thursday for the resuscitation of a peace initiative for Syria that never got off the ground when it was proposed months ago ...
Syrian minister leaves Beirut for fear of arrest
Syria's wounded interior minister cut short his treatment at a Beirut hospital Wednesday and returned home for fear of being arrested by Lebanese ...
New turmoil hits Egypt's tourism
At Egypt's Pyramids, the desperation of vendors to sell can be a little frightening for some tourists. Young men descend on any car with foreigners ...
Chinese scholars push for mild political reform
More than 70 prominent Chinese scholars and lawyers have urged the country's new Communist Party leaders to undertake moderate political reforms ...
Syrian rebels make more gains in north
Syrian rebels fully captured a northern town near the Turkish border on Tuesday after weeks of heavy fighting and attacked a regime air base in a ...