Moscow (CNN) — A massive explosion at a train station in the Russian city of Volgograd killed at least 16 people, including one police officer, the Investigative Committee of Russia said on its website Sunday.
Read MoreLebanese officials say a car bombing in central Beirut has killed former Finance Minister Mohamad Chatah and at least four others.
Read More(Reuters) – The Egyptian government intensified its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, formally listing the group as a terrorist organization after accusing it of carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a police station that killed 16 people.
Read MoreThe White House has reportedly withdrawn its initial choice to be the U.S. ambassador to Egypt after objections were raised by representatives of the military regime in Cairo.
Read MoreBEIRUT—Syrian aircraft pummeled an opposition neighborhood in Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 32 people in the eighth straight day of intense government bombardment of the rebel-held half of the city.
Read MoreGENEVA — The Syrian government has waged “a campaign of terror” against civilians through a policy of forced disappearances that amounts to a crime against humanity, United Nations investigators said in a report released Thursday.
Read MoreMonths of bitter sectarian fighting in Syria is deepening the divide between the branches of Islam in Persian Gulf states far from the battlefield, as Sunnis and Shiites wage dueling campaigns to drum up cash and supplies for Syria’s partisans, Western officials and independent experts say.
Read MoreSIDI BOUZID, Tunisia — It was a humble man’s desperate act, but one with far-reaching consequences. Relatively small and subdued crowds of Tunisians rallied Tuesday to mark the third anniversary of the self-immolation of vegetable seller Mohamed Bouazizi, which set in motion the series of uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East that came…
Read MoreBEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian antigovernment activist groups on Monday reported what appeared to be a major escalation of the military’s prolonged siege of Aleppo, with video and witness accounts of a helicopter gunship attack in which crews dropped explosive barrels filled with TNT and shrapnel on more than 13 rebel-held neighborhoods.
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