SYRIAN PRESIDENT SHOWING RENEWED CONFIDENCE
By ZEINA KARAM In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, President Bashar Assad, right, visits the Umayyad Electrical Station on May Day, a day after a…
Rebellions and uprisings
SYRIAN OFFICIALS DENY — USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS
By ALBERT AJI FILE – In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, rubble fills Sharia al-Sweiqa, inside the Old City of Aleppo, Syria. A year after the opposition fighters stormed…
CLASHES IN SYRIA; REBELS SEEK FOREIGN INTERVENTION
By BASSEM MROUE This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows anti Syrian regime protesters…
EGYPT’S MORSI TO RESHUFFLE CABINET AMID TURMOIL
Associated Press FILE – In this Friday, July 13, 2012 file photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi holds a joint news conference with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, unseen, at the Presidential…
DIPLOMATS: EU SET TO EASE SYRIA OIL EMBARGO
By JUERGEN BAETZ This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians standing next to…
OFFICIALS SAY 7 DEAD IN VENEZUELA PROTESTS
By ALEXANDRA OLSON and CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER Venezuela’s interim President Nicolas Maduro raises his fist as he holds up the official certificate declaring him winner of the presidential election at the…
HEZBOLLAH-BACKED LEBANESE SHIITES FIGHT IN SYRIA
By BASSEM MROUE In this Friday, April 12, 2013 photo, members of the Lebanese pro-Syrian Popular Committees stand guard at the Lebanon-Syria border, near the northeastern Lebanese town of al-Qasr,…
US GENERAL: TALIBAN LIKELY TO BE LONG-TERM THREAT
By ROBERT BURNS This image made from AP video shows Afghan National Army soldiers rushing to the scene moments after a car bomb exploded in front the PRT, Provincial Reconstruction…