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Israel reporter gets 4 months over secret army papers

Sep 03, 2012 (AFP)

A reporter with Israel's Haaretz newspaper, Uri Blau, was sentenced to four months of community service under a plea bargain for possessing classified military ...

US scales down military exercise with Israel: report

Sep 01, 2012 (AFP)

The United States has significantly scaled down a planned joint military exercise with Israel most likely because of disagreements on how to deal with Iran's nu...

Freedom and fear in Syrian rebel town

Sep 01, 2012 (AFP)

Residents of this rebel rear base north of the key battleground of Aleppo were cleaning up on Saturday after a Syrian regime air strike killed at least 12 peopl...

Syria rebels claim MiG shot down, Egypt causes storm

Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)

Rebels said they shot down a MiG warplane on Thursday as violence whipped across Syria ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on deteriorating humanitarian cond...

UN chief talks nuclear standoff, Syria with Iran

Aug 29, 2012 (AFP)

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday held talks with Iran's leaders on its nuclear activities, the Syria conflict and human rights ahead of a summit at which Tehra...

Race against time to find US MIAs in Vietnam

Aug 29, 2012 (AFP)

In a remote valley in Vietnam, US investigators sift through piles of red soil. Despite recovering the remains of hundreds of fallen troops, the hunt goes on fo...

Egypt army presses Sinai drive, says 11 militants dead

Aug 29, 2012 (AFP)

Egypt's military said its forces were being redeployed on Wednesday to press a campaign against Islamist militants in the Sinai and that 11 "terrorists" have be...

Israel's FM urges Morsi to visit Jerusalem

Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday urged Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi to warm relations with Israel by visiting Jerusalem. "I was happy to hear Eg...

Russia not 'running away' from Syria: army chief

Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)

The head of Russia's army said Tuesday that Moscow had no intention to end its military presence in Syria despite the escalating violence and threat of Presiden...

Syria rebels dream of weapons to down aircraft

Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)

On the edge of the Saif al-Dawla district of Aleppo, a commander argues with a rebel. He has ordered him to try to take out a regime tank, alone and with a sing...

Rebels claim downing of combat helicopter in Damascus

Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)

A rebel Free Syrian Army group claimed it had shot down an army helicopter in Damascus on Monday and that the pilot had been killed, a spokesman said. "It was i...

Libya's under-fire interior minister quits

Aug 26, 2012 (AFP)

Interior Minister Fawzi Abdelali resigned on Sunday after coming under fire for the performance of security forces during a surge of violence that has rocked Li...

Syria refugees stranded at border half-way point

Aug 26, 2012 (AFP)

Terrorised by shelling and air strikes, tens of thousands of Syrians have packed up and crossed the border to Turkey, but some have also been forced to take ref...

Outside View: Driving in Beirut

Aug 24, 2012 (UPI)

I love driving in Beirut but that's because I like driving among caffeine-fueled, race-car drivers, all jamming at high speed, with little consideration for sto...

China returns refugees to Kachin war zone: rebels

Aug 24, 2012 (AFP)

China has pushed thousands of refugees from Myanmar's Kachin minority back across the border into a province wracked by fighting between government troops and e...

Russia denies aiding Syrian CW program

Aug 24, 2012 (UPI)

Russia's Foreign Ministry's said that it has Syrian guarantees that the Assad regime won't deploy chemical weapons. Russian Foreign Ministry Deputy Foreign Mini...

Turkey, US officials in first operational meeting on Syria

Aug 23, 2012 (AFP)

Turkish and US officials on Thursday held their first "operational planning" meeting aimed at bringing about the end of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's embat...

Jets cross into Iraq to bomb Syria town: officials

Aug 23, 2012 (AFP)

Syrian military planes crossed into Iraqi airspace on Thursday in order to carry out air strikes against the border town of Albu Kamal, which is held by rebel f...

Church seeks Russia-Poland 'forgiveness'

Aug 21, 2012 (UPI)

The stain on relations between Russia and Poland can be overcome through faith and forgiveness, a Russian Orthodox religious leader said last weekend. Patriarch...

PA losing legitimacy among Palestinians: UN

Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)

The Palestinian Authority is losing legitimacy among its people because it is not creating a state, and as a result its institutions could "eventually collapse,...