US-RUSSIA REACH AGREEMENT ON SYRIA WEAPONS
By MATTHEW LEE and JOHN HEILPRIN U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday Sept.…
War and unrest
BOMBING IN SUNNI MOSQUE IN IRAQ, ATTACKS KILL 33
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Blood stains the walls and debris is strewn throughout the inside of a Sunni mosque after a suicide bomber struck during Friday prayers in the village of…
CLASHES ERUPT IN EGYPT AS ISLAMISTS STAGE PROTESTS
By TONY G. GABRIEL and ASHRAF SWEILAM A woman showing an open palm with four raised fingers, which has become a symbol of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where Morsi supporters…
EGYPT’S MILITARY LAUNCHES NEW OFFENSIVE IN SINAI
By ASHRAF SWEILAM EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian soldiers backed by attack helicopters swept through several villages in the strategic Sinai peninsula early Friday, part of an offensive aimed at…
AFGHAN TALIBAN ATTACK US CONSULATE, KILL 2 AFGHANS
By AMIR SHAH and NAHAL TOOSI A damaged vehicle sits in front of the U.S. consulate after an attack by a car bomb and a gunfight in Herat Province, west…
20 YEARS ON, OSLO ACCORDS PROMISE RINGS HOLLOW
By KARIN LAUB In this photo taken Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, a Palestinian man walks by a barrier separating the West Bank town of Abu Dis, from east Jerusalem with…
SYRIAN REBELS BLAST RUSSIAN OFFER ON CHEMICAL ARMS
By BASSEM MROUE In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian government solider aims his weapon during clashes with Free Syrian…
REPORTS INDICATE AMERICAN JIHADI KILLED IN SOMALIA
By ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO FILE – In this Wednesday, May 11, 2011 file photo, American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami addresses a press conference of the militant group al-Shabab…