Posted 3:43 AM 5/3/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) - The emergencies ministry in Kyrgyzstan says a U.S. military plane has crashed in the country. Kyrgyzstan hosts a U.S. base that is used for troops transiting into and out of Afghanistan and for C-135 tanker planes that refuel warplanes in flight. (More)...
Posted 8:23 AM 5/2/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW (AP) - Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry says it is cooperating with the United States in the case of two of its citizens arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing. Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov were university friends of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. (More)...
Posted 8:39 AM 5/1/2013 by Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Syrian activists are reporting that that several rockets have fallen on a popular Damascus neighborhood.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rockets fell on the Bab Mesalla neighborhood in central Damascus. Initial information indicates (More)
Posted 3:54 AM 4/30/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syrian state TV says the powerful explosion that struck central Damascus has killed 13 people and wounded 70. The nature of Tuesday's blast in the central district of Marjeh was not immediately clear but rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad's (More)
Posted 6:26 AM 4/29/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria's prime minister has escaped an assassination attempt today.
State media say a bomb went off near his convoy in the capital, Damascus.
A Syrian government official says the bomb was placed under a car was detonated when the prime minister's car drove by. He was not hurt.