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…
Iraq
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.…
KERRY: US WILL SUPPORT IRAQ, BUT WITHOUT TROOPS
By DEB RIECHMANN U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. Kerry is heading to…
RAPID FALL FOR ARMY GENERAL ACC– USED OF SEX CRIMES
By MICHAEL BIESECKER FILE – In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, file photo, Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair leaves a Fort Bragg, N.C., courthouse after he deferred entering a…
SYRIA LATEST MAGNET FOR JIHADIST SUICIDE BOMBERS
By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH In this Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 photo, Mohammed Siddeh, 52, at his workshop in Russeifa, outside Amman, Jordan, holds a picture of his son,…
IRAQ POLICE FIND BODIES OF 18 SUNNIS; BOMBS KILL 4
By SAMEER N. YACOUBCivilians and security forces inspect the site of a double car bomb attack at a vegetable market in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160…
Separate attacks in Iraq kill 27
By SAMEER N. YACOUB A Sunni worshiper leaves the Sunni Abu Hanifa mosque after he finds out it is closed at Azamiya area in north Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 23,…
MORE THAN 160 KILLED AS SYRIAN REBELS TRY TO SIEGE
By DIAA HADID In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, Syrian civilians look for undamaged furniture, clothes and food in their homes destroyed during clashes between the Sunni-dominated Free…