IRAQI PM SAYS HIS COUNTRY ON HIGH ALERT OVER SYRIA
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN A Baghdad municipality worker cleans, while people and security forces inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013.…
War and unrest
US WORKING ON DETAILS OF MILITARY STRIKE ON SYRIA
By JULIE PACE White House press secretary Jay Carney answers questions about Syria and chemical weapons during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 27,…
TALIBAN KILL 12 AFGHAN CIVILIANS, AID WORKERS
By RAHIM FAIEZ An Afghan man looks at the lifeless bodies of his relatives at a hospital in Heart west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Afghan officials say…
UN REFUGEE HEAD: SYRIA ON ‘VERGE OF THE ABYSS’
By ADAM SCHRECK AP10ThingsToSee – FILE – Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 20,…
TUNISIA CALLS CONSERVATIVE ISLAMIC GROUP TERRORIST
By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh addresses reporters during a press conference held in Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday Aug. 27, 2013. Ali Larayedh said that the salafist group…
UN RIGHTS CHIEF MEETS SRI LANKAN WAR SURVIVORS
Family members of disappeared Tamil people holding pictures of their relatives protest during the visit of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Aug.…
HAGEL: US MILITARY STANDS READY TO STRIKE SYRIA
By MATTHEW LEE and JULIE PACE FILE – This Aug. 26, 2013 file photo shows Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaking in Jakarta, Indonesia. U.S. forces are now ready to act…
KERRY: SYRIA’S CHEMICAL ARMS — USE ‘MORAL OBSCENITY
By MATTHEW LEE and JULIE PACE Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the State Department in Washington, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, about the situation in Syria. Kerry said chemical…