By Suadad al-Salhy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed when Iraqi security forces stormed a Sunni Muslim protest camp near Kirkuk on Tuesday, triggering a gun battle between troops and protesters and intensifying the country's sec... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - Gunmen killed a government official in a Damascus restaurant, Syrian state media and activists reported Friday as regime troops and rebels fought fierce battles near the Lebanese border, killing 18 people in Syria's third largest c... [Full Article]
BOSTON (AP) - Earlier this week, Lu Lingzi sent an exuberant email to a professor after learning she had passed part of a major exam. She had spent the entire year preparing for the test. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An earthquake toppled homes and shops on both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border Tuesday, killing dozens of people and causing skyscrapers to sway in Dubai. It also forced Iranian officials - for the second time in less than a week... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - A U.S.-based rights group on Thursday accused Syria of war crimes by indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate airstrikes against civilians, killing at least 4,300 people since last summer. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - An international rights group says the Syrian regime has been carrying out indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate airstrikes against civilians that have killed at least 4,300 people since last summer. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Serbia is in mourning as police search for possible motives in the Balkan country's worst peacetime shooting massacre, which left 13 people in a sleepy village dead. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed at least 37 and injured hundreds more in a sparsely populated area in southern Iran on Tuesday, Iranian officials said, adding that it did not damage a nuclear plant in the region. (Source: Associ... [Full Article]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed 32 and injured hundreds more in a sparsely populated area in southern Iran on Tuesday, Iranian officials said. Authorities said it did not damage a nuclear plant in the region. (Source: Associated... [Full Article]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed at least 30 and injured 650 people in a sparsely populated area in southern Iran, state TV reported on Tuesday. Authorities said it did not damage a nuclear plant in the region. (Source: Associate... [Full Article]