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  • Sectarian killings reported in Syrian village

    WASHINGTON -- Israel launched an airstrike into Syria, apparently targeting a suspected weapons site, US officials said Friday night. The strike occurred overnight Thursday into Friday, the officials told the Associated Press. It did not appear that a chemical weapons site was targeted, they said, and one official said the strike appeared to have hit a warehouse. The US officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Israel has targeted weapons in the past that it believes are being delivered to the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah. Earlier this week, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said his group would assist President Bashar Assad of Syria if needed in the effort to put down a 2-year-old uprising. 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?'' In the Syrian civil war's latest alleged mass killing, activists said Friday that regime troops and gunmen from nearby Alawite areas beat, stabbed, and shot at least 50 people in the Sunni Muslim village of Bayda. The slayings highlighted in the starkest terms the sectarian overtones of a conflict that has already killed more than 70,000 people. Details of the killings came to light as the Obama administration said it was again weighing whether to arm the rebels.(   05/04/2013 12:17 AM )

  • Rights group urges more backing in Iraq raid probe

    BAGHDAD (AP) -- Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged Iraqi authorities to give a government committee charged with probing a deadly raid by security forces on a protest camp last week greater financial and political backing to investigate who is responsible for what it described as an apparently unlawful use of lethal force. (   05/04/2013 12:02 AM )

  • Bomb explosion at Iraq mosque kills 7

    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. Sunni mosques have been targeted in several recent attacks amid rising sectarian tension in Iraq following a deadly crackdown by security forces on a Sunni protest site in Hawija town last month. Since then, violence have been on the upswing, raising concerns that the nation is on a return to bloody fighting in the past decade that approached a state of civil war. Police officials said the attack on the Sunni mosque occurred as worshippers were leaving mid-day prayers at al-Ghofran mosque in a primarily Sunni area of Rashidiya.(   05/04/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Anti-militia protest attacked in Libya

    TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Hundreds of Libyan pro-democracy advocates marched in Tripoli on Friday, denouncing militias' recent blockade of government buildings and coming under attack briefly by supporters of the armed groups, in the latest sign of the turmoil that threatens the country's first elected authorities. (   05/03/2013 3:50 PM )

  • Sectarian killings reported in Syrian village

    BEIRUT (AP) -- 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?" (   05/03/2013 3:11 PM )

  • Saudi Arabia reports 3 cases of SARS-like virus

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry has confirmed three more cases of a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 10 the number of cases it reported this week, including five deadly ones. (   05/03/2013 2:50 PM )

  • Anti-militia protest attacked in Libya

    TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Hundreds of Libyan pro-democracy advocates have marched in Tripoli, denouncing militias' recent intimidation of state institutions and coming under attack briefly by supporters of the armed groups. It was the latest sign of the turmoil that threatens the country's first elected authorities. (   05/03/2013 2:40 PM )

  • Anti-militia protest attacked in Libya

    TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Hundreds of Libyan pro-democracy advocates have marched in Tripoli, denouncing militias' recent intimidation of state institutions and coming under attack briefly by supporters of the armed groups. It was the latest sign of the turmoil that threatens the country's first elected authorities. (   05/03/2013 2:39 PM )

  • Google lists Palestinian territories 'Palestine'

    JERUSALEM (AP) -- Google is de facto recognizing a state of Palestine -- at least on its local home page in the Palestinian territories. (   05/03/2013 2:16 PM )

  • Google lists Palestinian Territories 'Palestine'

    JERUSALEM (AP) -- Google is de facto recognizing a state of Palestine. (   05/03/2013 12:41 PM )

  • Google lists Palestinian Territories 'Palestine'

    JERUSALEM (AP) -- Google is de facto recognizing a state of Palestine. (   05/03/2013 12:41 PM )

  • Bomb explosion at Iraq mosque kills 7

    BAGHDAD (AP) -- 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. (   05/03/2013 9:04 AM )

  • Israeli ultra-Orthodox party reinstates leader

    JERUSALEM (AP) -- A spokesman for Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party says it has reinstated Arieh Deri as party leader. (   05/03/2013 5:07 AM )

  • Disabled Gaza baby lives in Israel hospital

    RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) -- In his short life, Palestinian toddler Mohammed al-Farra has known just one home: the yellow-painted children's ward in Israel's Tel Hashomer hospital. (   05/03/2013 2:26 AM )

  • Kenya court: 2 Iranians guilty of terror plot

    NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Two Iranian nationals, whom officials accused of planning to attack Western targets inside Kenya, were found guilty Thursday by a Kenyan court of terror-related charges. Officials in Kenya say the two suspects may have been planning attacks on Israeli, American, British, or Saudi Arabian interests in Kenya. Magistrate Kaire Waweru Kiare said the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt all counts against the two. Kiare said he will give sentences for the two on Monday. Iranian nationals Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad and Sayed Mansour Mousavi were arrested in June 2012 and led officials to a 33-pound stash of the explosive RDX. Prosecutors said in their charge sheet that the two had explosives ''in circumstances that indicated they were armed with the intent to commit a felony, namely, acts intended to cause grievous harm.''(   05/03/2013 12:00 AM )