KURDISH REBEL LEADER CALLS FOR CEASE-FIRE
By MUCAHIT CEYLAN and SUZAN FRASER FILE -In this July 24, 2012 file photo, honour guard soldiers carry the flag-covered coffin of Ahmet Caglar, one of four soldiers killed in…
Middle East
OBAMA SAYS HE’S NOT GIVING UP ON MIDEAST PEACE
By JULIE PACE and MATTHEW LEE President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at the…
AP INTERVIEW: JORDAN KING SAYS ASSAD DAYS NUMBERED
By JAMAL HALABY King Abdullah II of Jordan poses for the camera after an interview with The Associated Press at the Royal Palace, in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday March, 20, 2013.…
OBAMA VOWS UNWAVERING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
By JULIE PACE and MATTHEW LEE President Barack Obama is greeted by Israeli President Shimon Perez, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon his arrival ceremony at Ben Gurion…
REMADE MIDEAST POSES NEW PERILS FOR OBAMA ON TRIP
By MATTHEW LEE Students of Estella’s school for bakery and pastry making, work on an image depicting U.S. President Barack Obama made out of chocolate in Givat Shmuel, central Israel,…
COMMANDER: CONTINGENCY PLANS UNDER WAY FOR SYRIA
By DONNA CASSATA and RICHARD LARDNER Adm. James G. Stavridis, commander, U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 19, 2013, before…
AP: COSTS OF US WARS LINGER FOR OVER 100 YEARS
By MIKE BAKER OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service…
COUSIN OF LIBYA’S GADHAFI ARRESTED IN EGYPT
By AMIR MAKAR Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam, cousin of Libya’s former dictator Moammar Gadhafi, gestures to supporters from a car after being arrested in Cairo, Egypt, March 19. 2013. Egyptian security…