SYRIAN FIGHTER JETS BOMB REBEL-HELD AREAS IN NORTH
In this Monday, Oct. 07, 2013 photo, opposition fighters prepare themselves for the battle during an attack on the Wadi al-Deef military post at the frontline in Maaret al-Numan in…
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IN NORTHERN PUSH, SYRIAN TROOPS REOPEN KEY ROAD
By BASSEM MROUE In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, in Damascus,…
NETANYAHU: ISRAEL WON’T LET IRAN GET NUCLEAR ARMS
By EDITH M. LEDERER Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the 68th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) UNITED…
WEAPONS EXPERTS KICK OFF COMPLEX SYRIA MISSION
By ALBERT AJI and ZEINA KARAM The convoy of a U.N. team of weapons inspectors, who concluded its almost week-long mission in Syria, arrive at Rafik Hariri international airport in…
UN: SYRIA REFUGEE CRISIS HURTING REGION’S ECONOMY
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, Portuguese Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, right, shakes hands with US Deputy Secretary of State William Joseph Burns, left, prior the High Level…
AP PHOTOS: SYRIANS SEEK SAFETY IN ANCIENT RUINS
The Associated Press In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 photo, a displaced Syrian woman comforts her one-month old grandchild Fatima inside a stone house near Kafer Rouma, in ancient ruins…
CLASHES IN EASTERN LEBANON KILL AT LEAST 3
By BASSEM MROUE Members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group remove one of their checkpoints in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. Hundreds of Lebanese soldiers and policemen…
CAR BOMB KILLS AT LEAST 30 NORTH OF SYRIAN CAPITAL
U.N. experts arrive to the Four Seasons hotel in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. A team of U.N. chemical weapons inspectors returned to Damascus on Wednesday to complete their…