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Turkey air force honours crew who downed Syrian chopper

Sep 22, 2013 (AFP)

Turkey's air force on Sunday paid tribute to the crew who shot down a Syrian military helicopter which it said had violated Turkish airspace. Air Force Commande...

Russia may change Syria position if Assad 'cheats': official

Sep 21, 2013 (AFP)

Russia may change its position on Syria if it sees any "cheating" by the regime, a senior Kremlin official said Saturday as Damascus disclosed details of its ch...

Outside View: Music ends for Beirut's Hard Rock

Sep 20, 2013 (UPI)

For those who have misplaced their local Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt or baseball hat -- the famous logo wear is irreplaceable as Beirut, Lebanon's institution has sh...

Putin says Syria chemical arms moves 'inspire confidence'

Sep 19, 2013 (AFP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he was confident but not 100 percent sure that Syria would carry out its commitments to destroy its chemical weap...

Kerry urges China to play 'constructive' role on Syria

Sep 19, 2013 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday urged China to play a "positive, constructive" role at the United Nations on a resolution to rein in Syria's chemic...

Qaeda-linked fighters tighten grip on Syria border town

Sep 19, 2013 (AFP)

Fighters allied to Al-Qaeda tightened their grip on a Syrian border town Thursday, as President Bashar al-Assad claimed most of the rebels fighting his forces w...

Palestinians say Israel acts risk scuppering peace talks

Sep 19, 2013 (AFP)

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said Thursday that peace talks could come to an abrupt end if Israel continues building settlements on occupied land an...

Two former Pentagon chiefs criticize Obama over Syria

Sep 18, 2013 (AFP)

Two former Pentagon chiefs who served under Barack Obama have criticized the president over the Syria crisis and his request to Congress to authorize possible U...

Outside View: The Syrian Sisyphus

Sep 18, 2013 (UPI)

The framework for elimination of Syrian chemical weapons agreed to last week by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov co...

Syria confident UN won't adopt Chapter VII resolution

Sep 18, 2013 (AFP)

Syria is confident the United Nations will not adopt a resolution on its chemical weapons under Chapter VII, which could allow the use of force, its deputy fore...

Syrian chemical arms saga raises questions about Israel

Sep 18, 2013 (UPI)

The U.S.-led drive to force Syria's beleaguered regime to surrender its chemical weapons has raised questions about the arsenal of chemical and biological arms ...

Egypt military court jails 5 Palestinians: army

Sep 18, 2013 (AFP)

An Egyptian military court on Wednesday sentenced five Palestinian fishermen to one year each in jail for illegally entering Egyptian territorial waters, an arm...

NATO says Syria military option should stay open

Sep 18, 2013 (AFP)

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday that the threat of military action should remain on the table to make Syria keep its promises on giv...

Outside View: Israel and the Syrian chemical weapons deal

Sep 17, 2013 (UPI)

As a U.S. Marine going through basic training many decades ago, light humor occasionally came to the fore. Trainees approaching a safety pit to throw hand grena...

White House: Obama to host Netanyahu on September 30

Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)

The White House confirmed Tuesday that US President Barack Obama will play host to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington at the end of the mo...

Syria security official says rebels have missiles, sarin gas

Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)

Syria rebels possess ground-to-ground missiles and sarin, and a UN report on chemical weapons use shows they carried out attacks near Damascus, a high-ranking S...

Trials of Gadhafi son, spy chief, could expose secrets

Sep 17, 2013 (UPI)

Moammar Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam and the late Libyan dictator's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi are slated to stand trial Thursday on murder ch...

Syria chemical weapons plan to begin 'in days': monitoring body

Sep 16, 2013 (AFP)

A US and Russian-inked programme to destroy Syria's chemical weapons should begin "in a matter of days," the watchdog tasked with implementing the plan said Mon...

UN report 'abundantly clear' that Syria carried out gas attack: Britain

Sep 16, 2013 (AFP)

Britain welcomed Monday's United Nations report into last month's chemical weapons attack in Syria and said it was "abundantly clear" from the findings that Bas...

Nearly half Syria's rebels are jihadists, report says

Sep 16, 2013 (UPI)

Nearly half the rebels fighting to topple the Iranian-backed Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad are either diehard al-Qaida jihadists or hardline Islamists...