SYRIA LATEST MAGNET FOR JIHADIST SUICIDE BOMBERS
By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH In this Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 photo, Mohammed Siddeh, 52, at his workshop in Russeifa, outside Amman, Jordan, holds a picture of his son,…
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SYRIAN REBEL SPOKESMAN DECRIES US, UK AID DECISION
By BASSEM MROUE This image made on a government-organized media tour for local journalists shows people returning to the western town of Nabek, which Syrian troops took full control of…
SYRIAN OPPOSITION GETS LESSONS IN NEGOTIATING
By MIKE CORDER FILE – In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, file photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian government solider aims his weapon during clashes…
SYRIAN TROOPS SEIZE CONTROL OF STRATEGIC HIGHWAY
By BASSEM MROUE Syrian Muslims walk in the courtyard of the historic Umayyad Mosque before weekly prayers in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. One of the oldest mosques in…
SEIZURE OF NUNS STOKES SYRIAN CHRISTIAN FEARS
By LEE KEATH A Syrian acolyte girl listens to the sermon, during prayers for nuns held by rebels, at the Greek Orthodox Mariamiya Church in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Dec. 8,…
HEZBOLLAH COMMANDER KILLED OUTSIDE HOME IN LEBANON
This undated photo released by the Hezbollah Media Relation Office on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2013, shows Hassan al-Laqis, described by Hezbollah as one of the founding members of the group…
POPE PRAYS FOR 12 NUNS ABDUCTED IN SYRIA BY REBELS
By NICOLE WINFIELD Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Vatican Pope Pope Francis delivers his…
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,…