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A powerful blast wrecked an Iranian pilgrim bus near a Shiite shrine in Damascus on Thursday, killing three people in an incident Syria said was caused by a tyre blow-out and not a terrorist attack.
The group, Shurat HaDin, has filed a suit in a U.S. district court in San Juan, Puerto Rico for the families of the victims of the 1972 attack. During the assault on Lod Airport, 26 people were killed and 80 others were injured by attackers alleged to have been trained by North Korea.
Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Daniel Bellemare on Tuesday began a seven-day visit to Beirut where he will meet members of the new Lebanese government, his spokeswoman said.
"Positive Peace" is to identify which structures and institutions create and maintain peace. The GPI is a first step in this direction; the index is calculated on the basis of 23 indicators measuring conflicts, societal security and militarization. 2009 GPI was calculated before Iran's election, and Iran ranks as 99 out of 140 countries.
Washington, 2 December (WashingtonTV)—Lebanon’s new government on Wednesday adopted a policy statement backing Hezbollah’s right to keep its weapons to deter Israeli attacks.
And now it is here. The new "surge" in Afghanistan is underway – the second surge launched by the progressive president in his first year in office. Barack Obama's speech, and the policies embraced in it, and the sinister implications underlying it, are all abysmally awful.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A U.S.-based Armenian advocacy group has ramped up efforts to encourage Washington to recognize the Armenian genocide ahead of a visit by the Turkish premier.
As President Barack Obama prepared a speech regarding the future direction of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq was at Fort Leavenworth on Tuesday to discuss the nature of those and other conflicts in the region.
Officials said the intelligence community has determined that Al Qaida was expanding its presence in northeastern Syria. They said an increasing number of Al Qaida agents and recruits were operating near the Iraqi border.
Red Cross will have representatives in attendance at the United Nations Climate Change Conference .
Good timing made Bush's surge look successful. Obama will probably enjoy no such luck
WASHINGTON — In the first chapter of his recent book “The Much Too Promised Land,” University alum Aaron David Miller sets the scene for the announcement in Jerusalem of one of the most historic Middle East peace conferences.
Hezbollah's chief on Monday announced the group's new "manifesto," which calls on all countries to "liberate Jerusalem" and declares the United States a threat to the world.
Human Rights Watch urged the United States and Europe on Thursday to raise the plight of Syria's Kurdish minority in talks with Damascus.
KIRKUK, Iraq _While President Barack Obama prepares to announce that he's sending tens of thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, his problems in Iraq are far from over.
Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) was criticized in some quarters today for crapping on President Barack Obama's Afghanistan surge announcement before the speech was even delivered tonight.So...
