AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Syrian troops backed by tanks and warplanes launched an assault Sunday on a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, pounding the area with airstrikes and artillery salvos that killed at least 30 people and forced resi... [Full Article]
JERUSALEM (AP) - Once a year, Israel's Jewish war veterans don suit jackets and uniforms dripping in Red Army medals, the shiny bronzes and silvers pinned to their chests in tight rows, like armor. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (Reuters) - In Syria, for scores of men called each month to join the army for deadly combat, there is a more attractive alternative: stay home, join a loyalist paramilitary group, and get a share of the loot in raids on President Bashar al-As... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian rebels captured a military base in the strategic Homs province on Thursday as opposition fighters try to expand territory under their control near the Lebanese border, activists said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian activists say rebels have captured large parts of a military base in the strategic central Homs province, near the border with Lebanon. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - The Pakistani army says it evacuated 16 seriously injured people by helicopter from the site of a deadly earthquake near the Iranian border. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
CAMP THUNDER, Afghanistan (AP) - Gen. Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, commander of Afghanistan's 203rd Thunder Corps, looked happy as he sat down for lunch in his eastern command post near the border with Pakistan. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
CAIRO (AP) - With the Islamist president by his side, Egypt's army chief warned against slandering the military, denying in remarks broadcast Friday that the military committed any abuses against protesters during the turbulent transition of the... [Full Article]
CAIRO (AP) - With the Islamist President by his side, Egypt's army chief warned against slandering the military, denying in remarks broadcast Friday that the military committed any abuses against protesters during the turbulent transition of the... [Full Article]
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Winai Sawaengkarn closes his eyes before reaching into a wooden box and drawing a black card. He beams, and his watching mother sweeps him up into a tight embrace, overjoyed that he will not have to serve in... [Full Article]
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