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Russia offers to help French troop transport to Mali: Fabius
Jan 20, 2013 (AFP)
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Sunday that Russia had offered to help transport French troops and supplies to Mali and that Canada was to help to b...
Libya defence minister caught in firefight, unhurt
Jan 19, 2013 (AFP)
Libya's defence minister was unhurt Saturday after being caught in a firefight between his bodyguards and ex-rebels at an airbase in the east of the country, hi...
Syria defector swaps army trumpet for rebel rifle
Jan 19, 2013 (AFP)
Just a few months ago, Ali Naema was playing in the Syrian army band. Today, he's making war, not music -- but with the rebels, having swapped sides and his tru...
Neutral Austria to vote on army's future
Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)
Austrians will decide on Sunday whether to maintain compulsory military service or switch to a professional army in a referendum that has split the small, neutr...
France uses Mali war to boost Rafale jet
Jan 18, 2013 (UPI)
France is exploiting the deployment of Dassault Rafale combat jets against Islamic militants in Mali to boost efforts to clinch a $10 billion deal for 60 of the...
Outside View: 'Marshall Parks' in Mideast
Jan 18, 2013 (UPI)
On Dec. 4, 2008, exactly 40 years after returning from a tour as an infantryman in the Vietnam War, U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., spoke of peace. "When I think...
Mali war triggers fears of wider conflict
Jan 17, 2013 (UPI)
As France steps up its war on jihadists in Mali, there are concerns the intervention could trigger a wider conflict with al-Qaida -- just as the 2011 U.S.-NATO ...
Netanyahu faces Israel vote confident of victory
Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)
Israel's January 22 election is expected to return Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to office, giving him a fresh mandate to tackle stubborn foreign policy que...
Outside View: Word on the Benghazi street
Jan 17, 2013 (UPI)
The word from Libyan journalists in Benghazi is that the attack on the U.S. consulate was carried out, not by terrorists, but by remaining elements of Moammar G...
Hariri assassination trial opens amid Lebanon's sectarian tensions
Jan 16, 2013 (UPI)
The trial of four Hezbollah members indicted in the 2005 assassination of Lebanon's Rafik Hariri began in The Hague amid fears of rising sectarian tensions. Opt...
'No credible evidence' Syria used chemical arms: US
Jan 16, 2013 (AFP)
A top US official on Wednesday categorically denied a report that according to a leaked State Department cable Syria had used chemical weapons in December. "At ...
France battles Mali Islamists as hostage crisis unfolds
Jan 16, 2013 (AFP)
French troops battled Islamist rebels in Mali Wednesday in a war that escalated as Al-Qaeda-linked fighters claimed to have taken 41 foreigners hostage in a ret...
US blames Assad regime for 'despicable' campus blasts
Jan 16, 2013 (AFP)
The United States on Wednesday condemned the "despicable attack" on university buildings in the Syrian city of Aleppo, blaming the regime for unleashing air str...
France strikes new Mali town, boosts troop numbers
Jan 15, 2013 (AFP)
French warplanes hit a town newly-seized by Islamists in Mali as African troops on Tuesday prepared to join the offensive which has sent the jihadists fleeing f...
Israel: Uprising fears rise as poll nears
Jan 15, 2013 (UPI)
With Israel's hard-line right wing expected to score heavily in the Jewish state's parliamentary elections next week, there's growing concern the Palestinians, ...
Syria: Signs are Assad will endure -- thanks to al-Qaida
Jan 15, 2013 (UPI)
Increasingly, Syria's tenacious President Bashar Assad seems to be coming out on top as the country's murderous civil war heads toward its fourth year. The disp...
Outside View: Syrian 'Coward of the Alamo'
Jan 15, 2013 (UPI)
On the evening of March 5, 1836, the 189 Americans defending the "Alamo" -- a Spanish mission in Texas -- faced a monumental decision. Surrounded by thousands o...
Assad may run for 2014 election, air strikes across Syria
Jan 15, 2013 (AFP)
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad may defy calls to step down and stand for election in 2014, an official said, as his army on Tuesday pounded rebel zones with ...
Air strike near Damascus kills 8 children, 5 women
Jan 14, 2013 (AFP)
An air strike Monday on several houses in the rebel-held town of Moadamiyat al-Sham southwest of Damascus killed at least eight children and five women, the Syr...
Colombian peace talks resume with pressure to act fast
Jan 14, 2013 (AFP)
The Colombian government and leftist FARC rebels pressed each other Monday to speed up peace talks to end their half-century-old conflict as the rivals resumed ...
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