SYRIAN PRESIDENT SHOWING RENEWED CONFIDENCE
By ZEINA KARAM In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, President Bashar Assad, right, visits the Umayyad Electrical Station on May Day, a day after a…
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SUSPECT IN CANADA TERROR PLOT DENIES CHARGES
By ROB GILLIES and BENJAMIN SHINGLER In this courtroom sketch, Raed Jaser appears in court in Toronto on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Jaser, 35, and Chehib Esseghaier, 30, were arrested…
FBI: MASS. BOMBS MAY HAVE BEEN IN PRESSURE COOKERS
By JAY LINDSAY and EILEEN SULLIVAN FBI agents gather near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston Tuesday, April 16, 2013. The bombs that ripped through the crowd…
AL-QAIDA LEADER URGES MUSLIMS TO UNITE IN STRUGGLE
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF FILE — In this undated file frame grab from video provided by IntelCenter, an American private terrorist threat analysis company, shows Al-Qaida’s leader Ayman Al-Zawahri in a…
ISRAEL, GAZA LAUNCH HEAVIEST STRIKES SINCE TRUCE
By IAN DEITCH Israeli Border Police take position during clashes in Jerusalem’s Old City, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. Clashes erupted during a protest in support of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, 64,…
US RESTRAINT IN SYRIA COULD AID IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS
By LARA JAKES FILE – In this Oct. 30, 2012 file photo, a group of Free Syrian Army fighters carry a wounded comrade to cover in the town of Harem,…
ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS ATTACK TIMBUKTU IN NORTH MALI
By BABA AHMED and RUKMINI CALLIMACH FILE In this Feb. 7, 2013 file photo, a Malian soldier walks in Gao, northern Mali. Timbuktu has been hit by a prolonged battle…
KERRY WARNS IRAQ ON IRAN FLIGHTS TO SYRIA
By MATTHEW LEE U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right meets with Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 24, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry…