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Besieged Afghan media appeals to Karzai for protection

YoopyaMay 4, 20120

By Amie Ferris-Rotman and Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s media representatives are appealing to the government to protect the rights of journalists who are

Car bomb kills 6 after Obama leaves Afghan capital

YoopyaMay 2, 20120

(Reuters) – A car bomb exploded outside a compound housing Westerners in Kabul on Wednesday hours after U.S. President Barack Obama signed a security pact

Syria violence kills 23 despite U.N.-monitored truce

YoopyaMay 1, 20120

By Erika Solomon BEIRUT (Reuters) – Violence erupted in two Syrian provinces on Tuesday, with a rights group reporting 10 civilians dead in an army

Syrian activists: Deadly mortar shelling at farming village of Mishmishan as cease-fire unravels

YoopyaMay 1, 20120

(CBS/AP) BEIRUT – Syrian forces fired mortar shells at a farming village in the country’s north Tuesday, killing at least seven people, many from the

1 year after Osama bin Laden killed, still no answers from Pakistan

YoopyaMay 1, 20120

The killing of Osama bin Laden (CBS/AP) ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan – One year since U.S. commandos flew into this Pakistani army town and killed Osama bin

Deadly bombs in Syria’s Idlib target security

YoopyaApr 30, 20120

By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) – At least eight people, mostly Syrian military personnel, were killed and about 100 wounded on Monday in bomb blasts

Syria accuses UN chief of encouraging ‘terrorists’

YoopyaApr 28, 20120

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian state-run newspaper accused U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday of encouraging “terrorist” rebel attacks by

Pakistan deports Bin Laden’s family to Saudi Arabia

YoopyaApr 27, 20120

By Qasim Nauman ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The family of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed almost a year ago by American special

Iraq’s Shahristani: dispute with Kurds an internal affair

YoopyaApr 27, 20120

By Alister Bull WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A simmering dispute between Iraq’s central government and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan is an internal affair, a top

Pakistan army uses bullets, and classrooms to fight militancy

YoopyaApr 25, 20120

By Michael Georgy GULIBAGH, Pakistan (Reuters) – Hazrat Gul spent two years in detention for allegedly aiding the Pakistani Taliban when they publicly flogged and