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By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Ignoring mounting casualties and dwindling support, Syrian President Bashar Assad made clear to the world Sunday in his first...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi replaced Egypt's finance and interior ministers Sunday in a Cabinet reshuffle aimed at calming growing...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Sandra Alloush says she loved her work as an announcer for an official Syrian television news channel, and saw it as a way to...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
SANA, Yemen — Lithe men with ladders fan through the grove in the morning light. They joke and taunt. Hands quick in grit and shadow,...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Fighting raged around the suburbs of the Syrian capital Friday, as rebels sought to gain control of a ring of farming,...
By Joe Flint and Meg James, Los Angeles Times
Al Jazeera has built a formidable presence around the globe, but the Qatar news service has struggled to establish itself in the United...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Rebel fighters and government forces on Thursday battled for control of two strategic airports in northern Syria, the loss of...
By Batsheva Sobelman, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Two years after construction began, Israel has finished the bulk of the work on a fence along its border with Egypt.
By Reem Abdellatif, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Many of Egypt's twentysomething generation, hungry for a just society and economic opportunities, say they see themselves as...
By Ramin Mostaghim and Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — As rebel forces advance and longtime allies in Moscow distance themselves, Syria's most faithful friend is recalculating as...
By Ned Parker and Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi made a new push Thursday to draw Syrian officials and rebels into negotiations, aiming to...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Twenty people were killed Wednesday in fighting in a small Syrian village, according to opposition activists, as the...
By Nabih Bulos and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan — Rumors that four infants perished from the cold prompted an outcry last month at this sprawling site, by far...
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
AL SARRAIN, Yemen — The U.S. drone flew over a cluster of mud houses on a ridge and, according to Yemeni officials, locked onto...
By Edmund Sanders and Batsheva Sobelman, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — As Israel heads toward national elections next month, there's no shortage of hot-button issues that might dominate the...
By Ned Parker and Lava Selo, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi ended a two-day visit to Syria on Monday after meeting with President Bashar Assad, but...
By Reem Abdellatif and Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's opposition on Sunday charged that fraud was committed during a referendum on the nation's Islamist-backed...
By Reem Abdellatif and Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi apparently secured a victory at the polls Saturday for a new Egyptian constitution, locking the...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — A car bomb exploded in eastern Damascus on Saturday, an insurgent spokeswoman said, and the Syrian government reported that a...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans on Thursday challenged the Obama administration's plan for correcting flaws exposed by the...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Israel's political left cheered when newly installed Labor Party head Shelly Yachimovich led the faction from near-...
By Paul Richter and Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Four senior State Department officials resigned under pressure Wednesday after an independent review board determined...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The State Department was guilty of "systematic failures" in security that made the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Rima Marrouch, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Thousands of residents were fleeing a densely populated Palestinian district outside Damascus Monday amid rumors that...
By Reem Abdellatif, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's public prosecutor, appointed by President Mohamed Morsi last month, resigned from his post Monday amid ongoing tension...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A high-level State Department investigative panel turned over a secret report Monday assessing blame for the deadly...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO –- Approval of Egypt's controversial draft constitution in an initial round of voting revealed the grass-roots power of...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Battles raged Sunday in a sprawling Palestinian refugee camp outside Damascus as Syrian government troops pressed an...
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Reem Abdellatif, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egyptians began voting Saturday on a constitution that sharpens divisions between Islamists and secularists and intensifies...
By Paul Richter, Christi Parsons and Melanie Mason, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — President Obama dropped embattled United Nations envoy Susan Rice from consideration as his next secretary of State,...
By Sergei L. Loiko and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — A high-level Russian diplomat conceded Thursday that Syrian rebels could succeed in ousting President Bashar Assad,...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Israel's attorney general said Thursday that he would charge Avigdor Lieberman, the nation's combative foreign minister,...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's leading opposition group urged its followers Wednesday to vote against an Islamist-inspired draft constitution, ending...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Rima Marrouch, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The United States faced a growing backlash Wednesday for its decision to blacklist a Syrian rebel faction because of...
By Rima Marrouch, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT —The rocket man vows that his hometown will never again face aerial bombardment.
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Reem Abdellatif, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's volatile political fault lines were shaken Tuesday as rival protests echoed across the capital over the fate of a...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has formally designated a rebel group fighting in Syria as a terrorist organization in an effort...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Knots of men argue politics, barefoot boys grip stones, graffiti blooms, banners unfurl and wind whistles through the tents of...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Russia said Sunday that it has no intention of pushing for the ouster of President Bashar Assad, as international negotiators...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's main opposition groups rejected President Mohamed Morsi's weekend move to ease political tensions as the country...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JABALIYA, Gaza Strip — As tens of thousands of Gazans celebrated Hamas' 25th anniversary Saturday, Mohamed Mustafa Abdallah huddled by...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
MT. GERIZIM, West Bank — When Ben Yehuda Altif got engaged to his first cousin Mazal, there was no problem winning the blessing of...
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Reem Abdellatif, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — In a political reversal to calm weeks of unrest, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi early Sunday rescinded much of last month&...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — With the Syrian civil war apparently near a turning point, Obama administration officials are finding their ability to...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Rima Marrouch, Los Angeles Times
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Late that evening, Abdel Hakim Ibrahim finally confirmed his father's worst fear: He had left for Syria.
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal set foot in the Gaza Strip for the first time Friday, emerging from the...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — With tanks guarding his palace and officials defecting from his government, besieged Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on...
By Reem Abdellatif, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Tens of thousands of Egyptians broke through barbed wire and marched to the presidential palace Friday demanding that...
By Rasha Elass, Los Angeles Times
DAMASCUS, Syria — The young Syrian mother had just fed her baby girl and put her down for a nap. The woman's husband was at work.
By Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency acknowledged Thursday that inspectors had made no progress in a...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Anger between Egypt's rival political camps erupted into street battles Wednesday after Islamist supporters of President...
By Ramin Mostaghim and Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — His son is named after the river born where the Tigris and Euphrates meet. His wife once complained that he loved a rare...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Tuesday agreed to deploy Patriot anti-missile batteries along the Turkish border...
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Reem Abdellatif, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Tens of thousands of protesters angered by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's expanded powers and a much-criticized proposed...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The United States bluntly warned Syrian President Bashar Assad against using chemical weapons as his forces lose ground to...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Israel is facing an onslaught of criticism from European allies over its decision to revive a controversial West Bank...
By Reem Abdellatif, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council agreed Monday to oversee a national referendum on the country's draft constitution, a move...
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Reem Abdellatif, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's highest court Sunday postponed ruling on the legitimacy of the constitutional assembly after judges accused Islamist...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Fierce clashes and heavy government bombardment were reported Sunday on the outskirts of Damascus as the Syrian military...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Islamists in Egypt's capital rallied Saturday to support President Mohamed Morsi in what is emerging as a decisive battle with...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Internet and telephone service were restored to the Syrian capital Saturday, two days after a nationwide communications...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Israel is among the most security-conscious nations on Earth. F-16 warplanes scream overhead. Antimissile systems become...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The chief of the Tehran police unit charged with investigating online crime has been fired for "negligence and insufficient...
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Reem Abdellatif, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt awoke to widening protests Friday from a resurgent opposition testing a president who refuses to rein in his power while...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly voted by a lopsided margin over U.S. and Israeli objections to grant Palestinians...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's Islamist-dominated constitutional assembly passed a rushed draft of a constitution early Friday to ease public anger...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
RISHON LE ZION, Israel — During the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, high-tech executive Sharon Savariego was never far...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Amid thimbles, pins and strands of silver thread, the tailor twitched his pencil-perfect mustache in disgust and said the...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Syria was plunged into Internet darkness Thursday and much of the nation's telephone service was cut as fighting raged on the...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is virtually certain to win passage Thursday of a United Nations General...
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