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Rebel bombing strikes at heart of Syrian regime
Rebels penetrated the heart of Syria's power elite Wednesday, detonating a bomb inside a high-level crisis meeting in Damascus that killed three ...
Israeli defense minister, chiefs discussing Syria
Israel's top defense officials convened for emergency meetings on Wednesday to discuss the deteriorating security situation in Syria, reflecting ...
UN schedules vote on new Syria resolution
Russia remained at odds with the U.S. and its European allies ahead of a scheduled vote Wednesday afternoon on a new Syria resolution aimed at ending ...
Clashes spread to new areas in Syrian capital
Syrian government forces attacked rebels with helicopter gunships in the heart of Damascus on Tuesday, escalating a campaign to crush their opponents ...
Syria uses helicopters to battle rebels in capital
Intense clashes between Syrian rebels and government forces backed by helicopters spread to new areas of the capital Damascus Tuesday, including a ...
Israeli intel chief: jihadis head for Syria border
Israel's military intelligence chief on Tuesday warned that global jihadists have moved into Syrian territory bordering the Israeli-controlled Golan ...
Russia accuses West of blackmail on Syria plans
Russia on Monday accused the West of effectively using blackmail to secure a new U.N. Security Council resolution that threatens sanctions and could ...
Syrian rebels push war into capital Damascus
Syrian rebels fired grenades at tanks and troops while regime armor shelled Damascus neighborhoods on Monday, sending terrified families fleeing the ...
Red Cross declares Syrian conflict to be civil war
Syria's 16-month bloodbath crossed an important symbolic threshold Sunday as the international Red Cross formally declared the conflict a civil war, ...
AP Interview: Moderate Taliban want peace, US says
Moderate Taliban figures have expressed interest in the fragile peace process, the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan said Thursday, referring ...
Syria conference leaves open Assad question
An international conference on Saturday accepted a U.N.-brokered peace plan that calls for the creation of a transitional government in Syria, but at ...
West avoiding action in Syria, blaming Russia
The U.S. has spent months disparaging Russia for blocking strong U.N. action against Syria and standing by President Bashar Assad as his forces lay ...
Obama: Putin talks candid, tensions can be eased
Seeking common ground, President Barack Obama said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Monday on the need for a political process in Syria ...
UN observers in Syria suspend patrols
U.N. observers suspended their patrols in Syria on Saturday due to a recent spike in violence, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan ...
Syria observer chief says violence derails mission
The head of the U.N. observers in Syria said Friday a spike in bloodshed is derailing the mission to monitor and defuse more than a year of violence, ...
Syria overruns rebellious village, violence spikes
Syrian forces overran a mountain enclave near the Mediterranean coast Wednesday, seizing the territory back from rebels as a serious escalation in ...
Bombs target pilgrims in Iraq, killing scores
Car bombs ripped through Shiite and Kurdish targets in Baghdad and other cities Wednesday, killing at least 66 people, wounding more than 200 and ...
US accuses Russia but needs its help in Syria
Tensions between the U.S. and Russia flared Wednesday as the former Cold War foes traded blame for the violence in Syria just days before a planned ...
Syria claims it has retaken rebellious village
Syrian forces pushed out scores of rebels holed up in a rebellious area near the Mediterranean coast Wednesday and state television said they retook ...
UN monitors shot at on way to Syrian massacre site
Unarmed United Nations monitors came under fire Thursday as they tried to reach the scene of the latest mass killing in Syria, U.N.