KENYAN FORCES LAUNCH ASSAULT TO END HOSTAGE SIEGE
By JASON STRAZIUSO and TOM ODULA Trucks of soldiers from the Kenya Defense Forces arrive after dawn outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. Islamic extremist…
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39 DEAD IN KENYA MALL ATTACK; HOSTAGES STILL HELD
By JASON STRAZIUSO and TOM ODULA Civilians who had been hiding inside during the gun battle manage to flee from the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013.…
ATTACK POINTS TO AL-QAIDA SURGE IN YEMEN
By AHMED AL-HAJ FILE – In this Tuesday, April 23, 2013 file photo, a suspected Yemeni al-Qaida militant, center, holds an Islamist banner as he stands behind bars during a…
WHY IS FRANCE PUSHING SO HARD ON SYRIA?
By JAMEY KEATEN U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, walks with French President Francois Hollande, right, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, second left, and British Foreign Secretary William Hague,…
SYRIAN REBEL INFIGHTING KILLS 5 NEAR IRAQI BORDER
In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian medics treat wounded children and men,…
BOMBING IN SUNNI MOSQUE IN IRAQ, ATTACKS KILL 33
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Blood stains the walls and debris is strewn throughout the inside of a Sunni mosque after a suicide bomber struck during Friday prayers in the village of…
CLASHES ERUPT IN EGYPT AS ISLAMISTS STAGE PROTESTS
By TONY G. GABRIEL and ASHRAF SWEILAM A woman showing an open palm with four raised fingers, which has become a symbol of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where Morsi supporters…
EGYPT’S MILITARY LAUNCHES NEW OFFENSIVE IN SINAI
By ASHRAF SWEILAM EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian soldiers backed by attack helicopters swept through several villages in the strategic Sinai peninsula early Friday, part of an offensive aimed at…