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…
Rebellions and uprisings
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…
LIBYA PREMIER BRIEFLY ABDUCTED IN SIGN OF CHAOS
By ESAM MOHAMMED and MAGGIE MICHAEL Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan, left, gives a press conference after being rescued from gunmen who snatched him from his hotel early Thursday and…
SYRIAN FIGHTER JETS BOMB REBEL-HELD AREAS IN NORTH
In this Monday, Oct. 07, 2013 photo, opposition fighters prepare themselves for the battle during an attack on the Wadi al-Deef military post at the frontline in Maaret al-Numan in…
INDIAN ARMY CALLS OFF SEARCH FOR REBELS IN KASHMIR
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Indian army commander Lt. Gen. Sanjiv Chachra, addresses a news conference in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. The Indian military called off a search Tuesday for…
EGYPT SAYS ATTACK IN SINAI WAS SUICIDE BOMBER
By SARAH EL DEEB Smoke rises from a security headquarters building in the southern Sinai town of el-Tor, Egypt, after a car bombing there on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Monday’s…
IN NORTHERN PUSH, SYRIAN TROOPS REOPEN KEY ROAD
By BASSEM MROUE In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, in Damascus,…
EXODUS OF CUBANS FUELS CLASH OF NEW AND OLD
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO In this Sept. 19, 2013 photo, Irka Ducasse Blanes, a recent Cuban immigrant, smiles during an interview at a tax preparation office where she works in Miami.…