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Row over arms for Syrian opposition splits EU
May 31, 2013 (UPI)
EU governments are increasingly split as British-French pressure grows for a stepped up supply of weapons to the Syrian opposition to help it topple President B...
Israel, Palestinians trade barbs over settler homes
May 30, 2013 (AFP)
Israeli plans for 1,000 new settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem are "destroying" efforts by Washington's top diplomat to revive the peace process, a Palesti...
Israel warns will act if Russia sends Syria missiles
May 29, 2013 (AFP)
Israel warned it "will know what to do" if Russia delivers promised anti-aircraft missiles to its war-torn ally Syria, amid growing fears of a wider conflict br...
Syria: Obama mulls no-fly zone, Russia sends missiles
May 29, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. President Barack Obama has reportedly asked the Pentagon to draw up plans for a Syrian no-fly zone to cut off the Damascus regime's arms supplies from Russ...
Libyan soldier dies, three wounded in Benghazi attack
May 29, 2013 (AFP)
A Libyan soldier was shot dead and three others badly wounded when gunmen attacked an army patrol in the eastern city of Benghazi late Tuesday, a security offic...
Outside View: Syrian supernova?
May 29, 2013 (UPI)
Syria is dying. A further tragedy is that there is little the outside world can do to end that war. The struggle between Bashar al Assad's Alawite-Shiite regime...
EU embargo move boosts Russia plan to arm Assad
May 29, 2013 (AFP)
The European Union's decision to lift its arms embargo on the Syrian opposition has provided Russia with a new defence of its controversial weapons deliveries t...
Three Libyan soldiers killed in Benghazi attack
May 29, 2013 (AFP)
Three Libyan soldiers died in a bomb attack on their patrol in the eastern city of Benghazi, a military spokesman said on Wednesday, updating an earlier toll. "...
Iran 'invited' to Syria peace conference: state media
May 29, 2013 (AFP)
Iran has received "an oral invitation" to attend a planned Syria peace conference in Geneva next month, the official IRNA news agency quoted a deputy foreign mi...
Israeli soldiers treat civilians in simulated attacks
May 28, 2013 (AFP)
Israeli soldiers treated "wounded" civilians on Tuesday in a simulated chemical weapons attack as part of an annual civil defence drill, against the backdrop of...
Colombia's ELN rebels confirm soldier's capture
May 28, 2013 (AFP)
Colombia's leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) confirmed Tuesday that it was holding a soldier captured in an attack last week that killed 11 other governmen...
EU ends arms embargo against Syrian rebels
May 28, 2013 (AFP)
The European Union finally agreed Monday to lift its embargo against arming Syrian rebels, after tough talks that exposed sharp differences between Britain and ...
Syria slams EU arms decision as peace 'obstruction'
May 28, 2013 (AFP)
Syria's government on Tuesday slammed an EU decision to lift a ban on supplying arms to rebel fighters as an "obstruction" of efforts to resolve the conflict in...
End of EU's Syria arms embargo harms peace efforts: Russia
May 28, 2013 (AFP)
Russia said Tuesday the EU's "illegitimate" decision to lift its embargo on arming Syrian rebels would harm peace efforts and insisted its own delivery of sophi...
Gunmen 'kill 3 Lebanon soldiers' near Syria border
May 28, 2013 (AFP)
A group of gunmen killed three Lebanese soldiers near the Syrian border overnight, the army said on Tuesday, in the deadliest such attack since the start of Syr...
France to probe samples from Syria for sign of chemical arms
May 28, 2013 (AFP)
French authorities will analyse samples brought back from Syria by two journalists after they reported the Syrian army was using chemical weapons against rebel ...
Gunmen kill 3 troops on Lebanon-Syria border: official
May 28, 2013 (AFP)
Armed men killed three Lebanese soldiers near the Syria border overnight, an official said Tuesday, in the deadliest such attack since the start of the Syrian r...
Yemen accused of using anti-personnel mines
May 27, 2013 (AFP)
Yemen was accused before the UN on Monday of using anti-personnel mines near its capital, even though it has signed a convention that bans all such weapons, as ...
Palestinians cool on Kerry's $4 bn plan
May 27, 2013 (AFP)
A $4 billion US plan to boost the Palestinian economy was met with a cool response as Palestinian leaders insisted on a political dimension to the stimulus whil...
Obama urges Americans to remember countrymen at war
May 27, 2013 (AFP)
President Barack Obama made a Memorial Day call to Americans Monday not to forget their countrymen still fighting in Afghanistan even as the United States winds...
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