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,…
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G-8 FOREIGN MINISTERS SLAM NKOREA RHETORIC
By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD and BRADLEY KLAPPER British foreign Secretary William Hague, right, greets German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle at the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting at Lancaster House Thursday April 11,…
UN: CHEMICAL INVESTIGATORS READY TO GO TO SYRIA
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, attends a breakfast meeting with Netherlands’ Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, not in the photo, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2013. Ban is on…
AL-QAIDA LEADER URGES MUSLIMS TO UNITE IN STRUGGLE
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF FILE — In this undated file frame grab from video provided by IntelCenter, an American private terrorist threat analysis company, shows Al-Qaida’s leader Ayman Al-Zawahri in a…
SYRIA ACTIVISTS SAY 20 KILLED IN ARMY AIRSTRIKES
By JAMAL HALABY U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry board a second plane after their original aircraft had mechanical problems on April 6, 2013,…
SYRIAN TROOPS BATTLE REBELS OUTSIDE DAMASCUS
FILE – This Thursday, March 22, 2012 file photo shows a general view of Damascus, Syria. A barrage of rockets slammed into a contested district on the northeastern edge of…
ISRAEL, GAZA LAUNCH HEAVIEST STRIKES SINCE TRUCE
By IAN DEITCH Israeli Border Police take position during clashes in Jerusalem’s Old City, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. Clashes erupted during a protest in support of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, 64,…
EX-AMBASSADORS URGE US, RUSSIA TO MEND RIFT
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Former U.S. Ambassadors to Russia James Collins listens while other former Russian and U.S. ambassadors gather together at RIA Novosti in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 2, 2013.…