ARAB LEAGUE: SYRIA CONFERENCE SET FOR NOV. 23-24
By DIAA HADID ADDS NAME – Abbas Hammoud, one of the nine Lebanese Shiite pilgrims who were kidnapped by a rebel faction in northern Syria in May 2012, is embraced…
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AL-QAIDA SURGES BACK IN IRAQ, REVIVING OLD FEARS
By ADAM SCHRECK FILE – In this Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, women walk past the aftermath of a car bomb attack in the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah in…
LIBYA PM LASHES OUT AT MILITIAS AFTER ABDUCTION
By ESAM MOHAMED Security forces work at the site where a car bomb went off outside the building housing Swedish and Finnish consulates on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 in Libya’s…
LIBYA PREMIER BRIEFLY ABDUCTED IN SIGN OF CHAOS
By ESAM MOHAMMED and MAGGIE MICHAEL Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan, left, gives a press conference after being rescued from gunmen who snatched him from his hotel early Thursday and…
AFGHAN PRESIDENT SAYS US SECURITY DEAL NOT READY
By PATRICK QUINN and RAHIM FAIEZ Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Karzai says disagreements over…
RAIDS SUGGEST FUTURE SHAPE OF COUNTERTERROR BIDS
By ROBERT BURNS FILE – In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-Shabab fighters just outside Mogadishu prepare to travel into the city in pickup trucks after vowing there…
US FORCES CONDUCT TWIN RAIDS IN LIBYA, SOMALIA
By KIMBERLY DOZIER, ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO This image from the FBI website shows Anas al-Libi. Gunmen in a three-car convoy seized Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias…
A DIVIDED EGYPT MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF MIDEAST WAR
By MATTHEW LEE U.S. State Secretary John Kerry walks with other delegate members during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministerial meeting in Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. Kerry says…