US: AMERICAN FIGHTERS IN SYRIA A SECURITY RISK
By EMERY P. DALESIO FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Wake County Sheriff’s Office via The News & Observer, shows Basit Javed Sheikh. Sheikh, 29, of Cary,…
Middle East
US OFFERS TO DESTROY SYRIAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS
By TOBY STERLING and ALBERT AJI FILE – In this Oct. 9, 2013, file photo, Ahmet Uzumcu, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, gives an update…
PAKISTAN PM IN KABUL DISCUSSES TALIBAN, ENERGY
By PATRICK QUINN Afghan President Hamid Karzai shakes hands with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during a joint press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013. Sharif said Saturday…
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…
KILLERS OF ISRAEL SOLDIER WHO SHOT ARABS SENTENCED
Defendants sit in a courtroom during their sentencing to prison terms of eight months to two years for their part in the lynching of a soldier who went on a…
ISRAEL COURT FINES WOMAN OVER NOT CIRCUMCISING SON
By DANIEL ESTRIN Israelis protest in support of a woman who refuses to have her son circumcised, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013. An Israeli rabbinic court is…
IRAN INVITES UN EXPERTS TO ARAK HEAVY WATER PLANT
By GEORGE JAHN Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan addresses the media during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA board…
UN: Syrian government and opposition to meet
By JOHN HEILPRIN Russian deputy Foreign Ministers Mikhail Bogdanov, background 3rd left, and Gennady Gatilov, center, arrive for a meeting with UN Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi and…