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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ARAB LEAGUE: SYRIA CONFERENCE SET FOR NOV. 23-24
By DIAA HADID ADDS NAME – Abbas Hammoud, one of the nine Lebanese Shiite pilgrims who were kidnapped by a rebel faction in northern Syria in May 2012, is embraced…
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…
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…
SYRIAN REBEL GROUPS SLAM WESTERN-BACKED OPPOSITION
By BASSEM MROUE In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens gather at the scene of a car bomb exploded in the residential al-Tadhamon neighborhood…
SYRIAN REGIME SHELLING NEAR DAMASCUS KILLS 16
By BARBARA SURK This Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows…
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,…