AFGHAN TALIBAN ATTACK US CONSULATE, KILL 2 AFGHANS
By AMIR SHAH and NAHAL TOOSI A damaged vehicle sits in front of the U.S. consulate after an attack by a car bomb and a gunfight in Herat Province, west…
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SENATE CONFIRMS NOMINEE CAUGHT UP IN BENGHAZI
By DONNA CASSATA FILE – In this Juy 11, 2013, Victoria Nuland testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senate has confirmed President Barack…
FORMER IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS SPOKESWOMAN NAMED AS VP
In this photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, Masoomeh Ebtekar, who was one of the Iranian students who occupied the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and acted as…
US ORDERS DIPLOMATS OUT OF LEBANON AMID FEARS
By ZEINA KARAM and RYAN LUCAS A Lebanese pro-Syrian regime supporter, with her hands painted in red to symbolize blood, attends a demonstration against a possible military strike in Syria,…
IRAQI OFFICIALS, MILITANTS WARN OF THREAT TO US
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ADAM SCHRECK FILE – In this file photo taken on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, members of an Iraqi Shiite fighters militant group called Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhadaa,…
A LOOK AT SYRIA DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE WORLD
By The Associated Press The convoy of U.N. experts cross into Lebanon at the Lebanese border crossing point of Masnaa, eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. The U.N.…
SURINAME LEADER’S SON ARRESTED ON US DRUG CHARGE
By DANICA COTO FILE – In this Aug. 26, 2003 file photo, Dino Bouterse, son of Suriname President Desi Bouterse, arrives to a court hearing in Paramaribo, Suriname. A Panamanian…
TUNISIA CALLS CONSERVATIVE ISLAMIC GROUP TERRORIST
By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh addresses reporters during a press conference held in Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday Aug. 27, 2013. Ali Larayedh said that the salafist group…