State media say Internet service restored in Syria
BEIRUT -- Internet service was restored in Syria on Wednesday, after a countrywide outage cut off the country from the rest of the world for nearly 20 hours, state media said.
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Gunmen snatch former Pakistani PM's son at rally
ISLAMABAD -- Gunmen attacked an election rally in Pakistan's southern Punjab province on Thursday and abducted the son of a former prime minister, intensifying what has already been a...
Syrian troops push into strategic southern town
BEIRUT -- An activist group says government forces have pushed into a strategic town south of Damascus on the highway leading to the border with Jordan.
Syrian rebels seize 4 UN peacekeepers on Golan
BEIRUT -- Rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad detained four U.N. peacekeepers on Tuesday in area that separates Syria and Israel, raising tension between the two countries just days after the Jewish state launched back-to-back airstrikes near Damascus.
Israel airstrikes loom over US diplomacy on Syria
MOSCOW -- Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday argued the U.S. case to Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russia to take a tougher stance on Syria at a time when Israel's weekend air strikes against the beleaguered Mideast nation have added an unpredictable factor to the talks.
Suicide attack on candidate kills 12 in Pakistan
PARACHINAR, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives near a vehicle carrying a candidate from a hard-line Islamist party in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people in the second attack on the party in as many days, police said.
Iran's presidential race officially opens
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian authorities opened the registration process Tuesday for candidates in next month's presidential election that will pick a successor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and offer a critical test for reformists battered after years of crackdowns.
Syrian rebels shoot down regime helicopter in east
BEIRUT -- Syrian rebels shot down a military helicopter in the country's east, killing eight government troops on board as President Bashar Assad's troops battled opposition forces inside a sprawling military air base in the north for the second straight day, activists said Monday.
Israeli airstrike in Syria aimed at Iran
BEIRUT -- From Israel's perspective, its airstrikes near Damascus were more about Iran than Syria: Tehran's shipment of guided missiles destroyed in the weekend attacks would have posed a potent threat had the weapons reached Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Bomb at Islamist party rally in Pakistan kills 14
PARACHINAR, Pakistan -- A bomb ripped through a campaign rally of a leading Islamist party in Pakistan on Monday, killing 14 people and wounding dozens more, a government official said as the run-up to the country's May 11 election becomes increasingly dangerous.
Bomb at Baghdad restaurant kills 4
BAGHDAD -- Officials say a bomb that went off at a Baghdad restaurant has killed four civilians.
Israeli PM visits China after Syria strikes
BEIRUT -- Israel signaled a return to "business as usual" on Monday, a day after its aircraft struck targets in Syria for the second time in 48 hours in an unprecedented escalation of Israeli involvement in the Syrian civil war.
Iran: Quake rattles region near nuke reactor
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran says a moderate earthquake rattled a region near the country's main nuclear reactor, but there were no reports of damage or deaths in the surrounding area.
Israeli airstrikes on Syria prompt threats, anger
BEIRUT -- Israel rushed to beef up its rocket defenses on its northern border Sunday to shield against possible retaliation after carrying out two airstrikes in Syria over 48 hours -- an unprecedented escalation of Israeli involvement in the Syrian civil war.
Attacks in Iraq kill 9, wound 33
BAGHDAD -- A series of attacks including a blast near an Internet cafe in a Sunni area of Baghdad killed nine people and wounded dozens on Sunday in and around the Iraqi capital.
Sectarian killings reported in Syrian village
BEIRUT -- The bodies of the Syrian boys and young men in jeans and casual shirts were strewn along a blood-stained pavement, dying apparently where they fell. Weeping women moved among the dead, and one of them screamed, "Where are you, people of the village?"
Bomb explosion at Iraq mosque kills 7
BAGHDAD -- A bomb attack outside a Sunni mosque on Friday killed seven worshippers as Sunnis continued to hold demonstrations in Iraq to protest what they say is second-class treatment by the Shiite-led government.
Pakistan's lead prosecutor in Bhutto case killed
ISLAMABAD -- Gunmen killed Pakistan's lead prosecutor investigating the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto as he was driving to court Friday, throwing a case that also involves the country's former ruler Pervez Musharraf into disarray.
Activists say dozens killed in Syrian village
BEIRUT -- Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen swept into a Sunni village in the mountains near the Mediterranean coast on Thursday, killing dozens of people, including women and children, and torching homes, activists said.
Israeli PM says he'd want referendum on peace deal
JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister says that if he reaches a peace deal with the Palestinians, he would hold a national referendum on any agreement.
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