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Russia seeks answers from Turkey over Syria plane intercept

Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)

Russia furiously demanded answers from Turkey on Thursday after it forced a Syrian passenger plane flying from Moscow to land in Ankara on suspicion of carrying...

Syria slams Turkish PM 'lie' over plane

Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)

Syria accused Turkey of hostility and "lying" on Thursday after it intercepted a Syrian passenger plane en route from Moscow which Ankara said carried military ...

US to help Jordan deal with Syria refugees

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

The US military has sent a task force to Jordan to help it handle an influx of Syrian refugees and prepare for other scenarios, including Damascus losing contro...

Nobel Peace Prize contenders, from Afghanistan to ex-Soviet states and Cuba

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday in Oslo. Here are portraits of top contenders for perhaps the world's most-watched award. +...

Slew of world conflicts fog Nobel Peace Prize guessing game

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

With a slew of conflicts tormenting the planet, observers say the field of possible winners for this year's Nobel Peace Prize is wide open, though some suggest ...

Outside View: Unintended consequences

Oct 10, 2012 (UPI)

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld coined the phrase "unknown unknowns," a snappier way to describe "unintended consequences." Both refer to event...

US military has Syria task force in Jordan: report

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

The US military has sent a task force to Jordan to help it handle an influx of Syrian refugees and prepare for scenarios including loose chemical weapons, The N...

Blasts at Syria air force compound kill dozens: NGO

Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)

Twin suicide bombings hit a Syrian air force compound near Damascus killing dozens of people on Tuesday, monitors said, as rebels took a key town on the road be...

Turkish army chief inspects troops near Syria border

Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)

Turkey's top military commander General Necdet Ozel on Tuesday inspected troops in the southeastern Hatay province near the Syrian border, a day after a Syrian ...

Hamas, Islamic Jihad fire rockets into Israel

Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)

Gaza's ruling Hamas movement and the Islamic Jihad group on Monday fired a barrage of projectiles at Israel, a day after a targeted Israeli air strike on the Pa...

Syria army steps up bid to crush Homs rebels

Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)

The Syrian army pressed an offensive against rebel-held areas of the central province of Homs on Monday, seeking to eliminate the last pockets of resistance to ...

One dead in Israeli air strike on Gaza: medic

Oct 07, 2012 (AFP)

One Palestinian was killed and nine others wounded on Sunday in an Israeli air strike that targeted a motorbike in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical ...

Warplanes batter Syria's Homs as Turkey returns fire

Oct 05, 2012 (AFP)

Warplanes pounded rebel-held areas of Homs in the Syrian city's heaviest onslaught for months on Friday, monitors said, as Turkey reportedly returned cross-bord...

Paraguay mulls security expansion

Oct 05, 2012 (UPI)

Landlocked Paraguay is taking measures to increase security of its borders, air and land links and telecommunications amid a continuing standoff with neighbors ...

Ship to sail for Gaza from Naples to challenge blockade

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

The Estelle, the latest ship to try to break Israel's blockade on Gaza as part of the "Freedom Flotilla" movement, will set sail from Naples in southern Italy o...

Syria: Hezbollah losses ring alarms

Oct 04, 2012 (UPI)

The killing of at least three Hezbollah fighters in Syria's civil war adds weight to persistent allegations the Iranian-backed movement has deployed military fo...

NATO backs Turkey but unlikely to do more over Syria

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

While Western powers quickly backed Ankara after deadly Syrian fire on a Turkish border village, it is unlikely its NATO partners, above all the United States, ...

18 Republican Guards killed in Damascus province: NGO

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

An explosion followed by an exchange of fire with rebels in Damascus province on Thursday left 18 members of Syria's elite Republican Guard force dead, a watchd...

'Several' Syrian soldiers killed in Turkish shelling: NGO

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

"Several" Syrian soldiers died when Turkish troops shelled their military post in response to earlier cross-border mortar fire which smashed into a Turkish town...

China urges restraint from Turkey, Syria: state media

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

China on Thursday called on Turkey and Syria to show restraint and respect each other's sovereignty, according to state media, following Ankara's decision to au...