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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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…
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,…
FRANCE WAITS ON US VOTE OVER SYRIA STRIKES
By RYAN LUCAS In this citizen journalism image provided by the United media office of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians pray…
SYRIANS BRACING FOR POSSIBLE US STRIKE
By DAVID ESPO and ELAINE GANLEY In this image provided by The White House, President Barack Obama meets with his national security staff to discuss the situation in Syria, in…
SYRIA WARNS US NOT TO INTERVENE MILITARILY
By BASSEM MROUE and ALBERT AJI FILE – In this Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, file citizen journalism image provided by the Media Office Of Douma City, which has been authenticated…
TWIN EXPLOSIONS KILL 29 IN NORTH LEBANESE CITY
By BASSEM MROUE A man recites prayers amid the destruction after a car bomb outside the Al-Taqwa mosque in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. The…