PALESTINIANS COOL TO PARTIAL SETTLEMENT FREEZE
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH Israeli border policemen evict a Palestinian activist from an area known as E1 near Jerusalem, Sunday, March 24, 2013. Palestinian activists erected tents in the E1 area…
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SYRIAN REBEL MILITARY LEADER REJECTS NEW PM
By BEN HUBBARD and JAMAL HALABY In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian doctors treat an injured man who was wounded at the Eman Mosque…
KERRY WARNS IRAQ ON IRAN FLIGHTS TO SYRIA
By MATTHEW LEE U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right meets with Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 24, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry…
MYANMAR’S ARMY PATROLS CENTRAL CITY AFTER VIOLENCE
In this Thursday, March. 21, 2013 photo, armed Myanmar police oficers provide security around a smoldering building following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550…
GREECE: 2 HURT, 11 ESCAPE IN PRISON SHOOTING
By COSTAS KANTOURIS Kostas Tassios, a coffee shop owner, points at a bullet hole in the window his coffee shop near the city of Trikala, central Greece, on Saturday, March…
MOMENTUM WEAKENED FOR ASSAD’S OUSTER IN SYRIA
By LARA JAKES In this March 21, 2013 photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem. Foes of Syrian President Bashar Assad are distracted by fragmentation…
REBELS SEIZE AIR DEFENSE BASE IN SOUTHERN SYRIA
By ZEINA KARAM In this undated photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, an 84-year-old cleric known to all Syrians as a religious…
FRANCE CONFIRMS DEATH OF AL-QAIDA CHIEF ABOU ZEID
GREG KELLER French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, left, and Mali’s Foreign Minister Tieman Coulibaly, right, pose for journalists after a meeting in Lyon, central France, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (AP…