AFGHANS MARK KILLING OF NORTHERN REBEL LEADER
By AMIR SHAH An Afghan guard of honor stands next to a portrait of Ahmad Shah Massoud, during a ceremony commemorating the 12th anniversary of his death in Kabul, Afghanistan,…
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SYRIAN REBELS SEIZE CONTROL OF CHRISTIAN VILLAGE
By JAMAL HALABY In this Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian military solider fires a heavy machine gun during clashes with…
SYRIAN REGIME SHELLING NEAR DAMASCUS KILLS 16
By BARBARA SURK This Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows…
POLICE: 15 DIE AFTER BLASTS HIT SOMALIA RESTAURANT
By ABDI GULED Somali soldiers look at the bodies of some of those who were killed in a suicide and car bomb blasts at a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday,…
IRAQI OFFICIALS, MILITANTS WARN OF THREAT TO US
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ADAM SCHRECK FILE – In this file photo taken on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, members of an Iraqi Shiite fighters militant group called Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhadaa,…
A LOOK AT SYRIA DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE WORLD
By The Associated Press In this citizen journalism image provided by The Syrian Revolution against Bashar Assad which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a…
SYRIANS BRACING FOR POSSIBLE US STRIKE
By DAVID ESPO and ELAINE GANLEY In this image provided by The White House, President Barack Obama meets with his national security staff to discuss the situation in Syria, in…
SURINAME LEADER’S SON ARRESTED ON US DRUG CHARGE
By DANICA COTO FILE – In this Aug. 26, 2003 file photo, Dino Bouterse, son of Suriname President Desi Bouterse, arrives to a court hearing in Paramaribo, Suriname. A Panamanian…