SUNNI LEADER: HEZBOLLAH DRAGGING LEBANON INTO WAR
By RYAN LUCAS FILE – In this August 2, 2013, file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rally to mark Jerusalem day or Al-Quds day, in the…
War and unrest
EGYPT CHALLENGES OBAMA’S ARAB SPRING PHILOSOPHY
FILE- In this Aug. 15, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters regarding events in Egypt from his rental vacation home in Chilmark, Mass., on the…
EGYPT CONSIDERS OUTLAWING MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
By MAGGIE MICHAEL and TONY G. GABRIEL Egyptians security forces escort an Islamist supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood out of the al-Fatah mosque, after hundreds of Islamist protesters barricaded themselves…
REACTIONS TO EGYPTIAN CRACKDOWN ON PRO-MORSI CAMPS
By The Associated Press Egyptians walk among the burned remains of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, in the center of the largest protest camp of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi,…
IRAQI PREMIER VOWS TO CONTINUE SECURITY OPERATIONS
By SAMEER N. YACOUB A man inspects the damage at a cafe following a suicide bombing in Balad, 60 miles (80 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013.…
TERRORISTS TURN TO ONLINE CHAT ROOMS TO EVADE US
By LARA JAKES and ADAM GOLDMAN FILE – This Aug. 10, 2013 file photo shows Yemeni soldiers inspecting a car at a checkpoint on a street leading to the U.S.…
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS PULLS OUT OF SOMALIA
By JASON STRAZIUSO Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) International President Dr. Unni Karunakara addresses journalists during a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. The aid group Doctors Without…
OFFICIALS: 56 KILLED IN EGYPT, MOST IN CAIRO
By HAMZA HENDAWI and MAGGIE MICHAEL Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in camp set up by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in Nasr City district, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday,…