SYRIAN PRESIDENT CASTS DOUBT ON PEACE CONFERENCE
By BASSEM MROUE and RYAN LUCAS In this photo, which AP obtained from Syrian official news agency SANA and which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP…
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SAUDI ARABIA REJECTS SEAT ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL
By AYA BATRAWY and EDITH M. LEDERER FILE – In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 file photo, the United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution that will require Syria…
AP SOURCE: OBAMA TAPS HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY
By NEDRA PICKLER FILE – In this Nov. 30, 2010, file photo, Jeh Johnson speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington. President Barack Obama has chosen former…
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…
VIETNAM SEES MASSIVE PUBLIC MOURNING FOR WAR HERO
By TRAN VAN MINH and CHRIS BRUMMITT A woman holds a portrait of the late Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap while waiting in the line among veterans outside the National Funeral…
SENIOR PAKISTAN TALIBAN CAPTURED IN AFGHANISTAN
By PATRICK QUINN In this Oct. 4, 2009 photo, Pakistani Taliban commander Latif Mehsud sits with fellows in Sararogha in south Waziristan in Pakistan. U.S. troops are holding the senior…
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…
EGYPT GENERAL SAYS BROTHERHOOD WARNED OF VIOLENCE
By MAGGIE MICHAEL In this photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour, center, Defense Minister Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, left, and other officials visit the Tomb of the…