NIGERIAN LEADER FIRES ALL MILITARY COMMANDERS
By MICHELLE FAUL In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Rescue workers gather around dead bodies following a suicide car bomb at a military post in Maiduguri, Nigeria. A…
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SYRIAN OPPOSITION GROUP ON BRINK OF COLLAPSE
By RYAN LUCAS and ZEINA KARAM FILE – In this Oct. 22, 2013, file photo, Syrian National Coalition chief Ahmed Jarba, center, Heitham Al-Maleh, left, and Salem Al-Muslit speak to…
ACTIVIST: AL-QAIDA GROUP IN SYRIA KILLS 20 REBELS
In this Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center, AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians hold copies…
FIGHTING BETWEEN IRAQI TROOPS, AL-QAIDA KILLS 34
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SINAN SALAHEDDIN Gunmen patrol after clashes with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. Lt. Gen.…
PAKISTAN’S MUSHARRAF NO SHOW IN COURT; BOMB FOUND
By REBECCA SANTANA A Pakistani female police officer stands alert outside a court set up for the trial of Pakistan’s former president and military ruler Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad, Pakistan,…
SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 14 IN RUSSIA’S SOUTH
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV In this photo made by a public camera and made available by the Associated Press Television News the flash of an explosion illuminates the entrance to Volgograd…
EGYPT: 3 KILLED AS POLICE CLASH WITH PROTESTERS
By MAGGIE MICHAEL Egyptian security forces fire tear gas to disperse supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi as they protest at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.…
POPE’S CHRISTMAS WISH: HOPE FOR A BETTER WORLD
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Pope Francis delivers his “Urbi et Orbi” (to the City and to the World) message from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday,…