BEIRUT - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad performed Eid prayers in a Damascus mosque on Sunday, state television showed, his first appearance in public since a stunning July bombing in the capital that killed four of his top security officials.
Assad, battling a 17-month-old uprising...

KHARTOUM - Up to 31 people including at least one Sudanese minister were killed when a plane taking them to an Islamic festival crashed in the south of the country, an official and state media said on Sunday.

The plane went down into mountains around Talodi, a town in the border...

TRIPOLI - At least two people were killed when three car bombs exploded near interior ministry and security buildings in the Libyan capital on Sunday, the first lethal attack of its kind since Muammar Gaddafi's fall last year, security sources said.

Ambulances and firefighters rushed...

ANCHORAGE - A French swimmer who lacks legs and arms has successfully swum the frigid waters separating Alaska and Russia with the aid of paddle-like prosthetics, expedition representatives said Saturday.

Philippe Croizon, whose limbs were amputated after a 1994 electrical accident...

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EAST CHINA SEA,- Several Japanese nationalists landed on Sunday on a rocky island in the East China Sea at the heart of...

VIENNA — Luxembourg's prime minister says Greece won't leave the 17-nation eurozone — arguing that an exit wouldn't be politically feasible and would carry unforeseeable risks.
Greece has been kept afloat by international loans but fallen behind on implementing reforms and austerity measures...

KABUL— A bomb in a busy Afghan market killed four people on Saturday in the western province of Herat, an official said, the latest attack targeting civilians in the decade-long war.

The early morning explosion also wounded 12 people, including three policemen who were on patrol in...

BRUSSELS - European nations and the United States, as well as some celebrities, have voiced sharp criticism of Russia  over jail sentences handed to three members of the punk band Pussy Riot who protested against President Vladimir Putin in a church.

Catherine Ashton, the...

UNITED NATIONS  — Former Algerian foreign minister and longtime U.N. diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi, known as a strong-willed, independent broker, has agreed to replace former Secretary-General Kofi Annan as peace envoy to Syria.

Brahimi, who served as a U.N. envoy in Afghanistan and...

 KABUL — A newly recruited Afghan village policeman opened fire on his American allies on Friday, killing two U.S. service members minutes after they gave him a new weapon as a present. It was the latest in a disturbing string of attacks by Afghan security forces on the international troops...