DAMASCUS- Syria's air force killed at least 20 people, including 17 children, on Wednesday in the latest strike on battered Aleppo city, as civilians bear the brunt of the civil war. The air strikes...
WASHINGTON, Robert Macpherson- A major exhibition of paintings and etchings by James McNeill Whistler opens in Washington this weekend -- but don't expect to see his mother there. "An American in...
LONDON- Live Aid founder Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches died of a heroin overdose, the same cause of death as her mother Paul Yates in 2000, Britain's Times newspaper reported on Thursday. The model...
BEIRUT- The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced it had executed seven prisoners in its bastion in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, two of them by crucifixion. ISIL, which has been...
AMMAN- The United Nations said on Monday that Jordan's third refugee camp, Azraq, had received its first group of Syrians ahead of its official opening this week. "A few hundred Syrian refugees...
BAGHDAD, Ammar Karim- Iraqi army helicopters hit a jihadist convoy in eastern Syria Sunday, killing at least eight, in a show of strength just days before the country's first general election since...
LOS ANGELES- Romantic comedy "The Other Woman" shrugged off a barrage of negative reviews to claim top spot at the North American box office this weekend, estimated figures showed Sunday. The movie,...
VIENNA- The Salzburg Festival, one of the world's top classical music events, needs "millions" more in state aid to survive, its president said in an interview published Thursday. "I cannot stay...
TEHRAN: An Iranian mother spared the life of her son’s convicted murderer with an emotional slap in the face as he awaited execution with the noose around his neck, a newspaper reported Thursday....
BEIRUT- Syria's Aleppo has been hit by a power cut for seven consecutive days, a monitoring group said Friday, the day after some 50 civilians were killed in air raids there. Regime-controlled areas...
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