Iran's Rafsanjani blasts clerics, says report
Nasser Karimi, Associated Press |
posted 5 minutes ago
Banned from upcoming elections, Iran's former president has leveled harsh criticism at the Islamic Republic's clerical rulers, saying they are doing a poor job running the country, an Iranian pro-reform website reported late on Wednesday.
US, Israel raise hopes for Mideast peace restart
Bradley Klapper and Josef Federman, Associated Press |
posted 25 minutes ago
The United States and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's two-month-old effort to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table.
Gunmen kill 7 Iraqi soldiers in central Iraq
Sinan Salaheddin, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 9:53am
Gunmen killed at least seven soldiers in central Iraq on Thursday, officials said, in the latest episode of violence to hit the country in a particularly bloody month.
AP Interview: Syria conflict uproots Palestinians
Albert Aji, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 8:51am
Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians _ descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago _ and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday.
5 dead in Lebanon clash of Assad foes, backers
Karin Laub, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 7:07am
Opponents and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad traded heavy machine gun fire and mortar shells in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, leaving five people dead in what was described as some of the heaviest fighting there in years, officials said Thursday.
Iran denies its drone entered Bahrain's airspace
Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 7:04am
An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country is denying that an unmanned drone violated the airspace of Bahrain, the strategic Gulf kingdom that hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.
2011 jail breaks become political issue in Egypt
Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 12:38am
It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power.
Submerged structure stumps Israeli archaeologists
Tia Goldenberg, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 12:28am
The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.
Kerry: US, allies ready to step up aid to rebels
Bradley Klapper and Bassem Mroue, Associated Press |
posted May 22nd - 3:59pm
The U.S. and several key allies looked again Wednesday for a strategy to end Syria's civil war, their united efforts unable at the moment to stem the Assad regime's military gains and Washington still unwilling to join those providing the rebels with lethal military aid.
Egypt leader claims victory in captives' release
Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press |
posted May 22nd - 2:39pm
The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt's Islamist president after months of criticism that his government is mismanaging the country.
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