Correction: Honduras-Death Squads story
In a story May 13 about suspects disappearing or dying after being in the custody of the Honduran National Police, The Associated Press misquoted U.S.
Dozens kidnapped in M23 fief in Congo: officials
Nearly 30 people have been kidnapped in eastern Congo by the M23 rebels in their fief of Rutshuru since the beginning of April, said a community ...
Libya bans Gadhafi-era officials from state posts
Under pressure from armed militias, Libya's parliament passed a sweeping law Sunday that bans anyone who served as a senior official under Moammar ...
Syrian president showing renewed confidence
Syrian President Bashar Assad and his allies are showing renewed confidence that the momentum in the civil war is shifting in their favor, due in part ...
Storming ministries, Libya's militias put pressure
Gunmen swooped in on trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns and surrounded Libya's Justice Ministry on Tuesday, cutting off roads and forcing ...
Group: Sudan army supporting fugitive warlord Kony
The fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony recently found safe haven in territory controlled by Sudan, a watchdog group said Friday, accusing the ...
Report: Sudan is supporting rebels in South Sudan
Sudan has supplied weapons and ammunition to rebels fighting neighboring South Sudan's government, says a report from the Small Arms Survey, an ...
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 ...
Eyeing Syria, White House woos regional rulers
When President Barack Obama meets over the next month with leaders from Mideast and other regional nations, he will have a timely opportunity to try ...
ND gears up for legal dispute on new abortion laws
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple said his decision to sign strict new abortion laws, including the nation's toughest restriction on the procedure, was ...
Rallies held to protest ND anti-abortion measures
More than 300 abortion-rights activists carried signs and chanted, "Veto! Veto! Veto!" in a demonstration Monday at the state Capitol protesting a ...
High-ranking Syrian general defects from army
One of the highest-ranking military officers yet to abandon Syrian President Bashar Assad defected to neighboring Jordan and said in an interview ...
Khmer Rouge's Ieng Sary dies amid genocide trial
Ieng Sary, who co-founded the communist Khmer Rouge regime responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians in the 1970s, and who ...
Khmer Rouge's Ieng Sary dies during genocide trial
Ieng Sary, who co-founded the brutal Khmer Rouge movement in 1970s, was its public face abroad and decades later became one of its few leaders to be ...
Syrian army eroded by defections, battle deaths
A top Syrian cleric's appeal to young men to join the army raised the question of whether President Bashar Assad is running out of soldiers, prompting ...
Congo says agreement not likely with rebel group
A peace agreement between the Congolese government and the M23 rebel group remains uncertain just days before a negotiation deadline expires, Congo's ...
A look at Syrian refugees in neighboring countries
The massive, chaotic influx of Syrians fleeing their country's civil war has stretched the resources of the neighboring countries taking them in and ...
Key military players in Syria's civil war
A list of key military players in the Syrian civil war: —SYRIAN REGIME: Despite major defections and the loss of significant territory to rebels, the ...
Iranian diplomat seeking asylum in Norway
A lawyer says an Iranian diplomat in Norway is seeking asylum in the Nordic country. Joergen Loevdal, the Norwegian attorney, says the diplomat, who ...
Libya's struggle to deliver justice fuels violence
Col. Faraj el-Dersi, who defected to the rebel side from Moammar Gadhafi's police force, was gunned down late last year on the streets of Benghazi, ...
Syria threatens retaliation for Israeli airstrike
Syria threatened Thursday to retaliate for an Israeli airstrike and its ally Iran said the Jewish state will regret the attack. Syria sent a letter ...
Syrian rebels seize key air base, activists say
Syrian rebels and Islamic militants overran a major military air base in the north Friday and, buoyed by the victory, intensified their offensive on ...
North Korea cracks down on knowledge smugglers
The warning came from Kim Jong Un, the North Korean ruler who sees his isolated nation, just across the border from this busy Chinese trading town, ...
North Korea's caste system faces power of wealth
For more than a half-century, a mysterious caste system has shadowed the life of every North Korean. It can decide whether they will live in the gated ...
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 ...
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