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Clashes in Lebanon feed fear of Syria spillover

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:19:50 -0400

BEIRUT - Lebanese supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad fired heavy machine guns and lobbed mortar shells at each other Thursday in some of the worst fighting in the port city of Tripoli in years.

Kerry: US, allies ready to step up aid to rebels

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:04:42 -0400

AMMAN, Jordan - The U.S. and several key allies looked again Wednesday for a strategy to end Syria's civil war, their united efforts unable at the moment to stem the Assad regime's military gains and Washington still unwilling to join those providing the rebels with lethal military aid.

UN: Drop in Syrians reaching Jordan, unclear why

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:13:02 -0400

GENEVA - U.N. officials said Tuesday that the number of Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan has suddenly fallen from an average of 2,500 a day to fewer than 20, and they are trying to quickly figure out why.

Jordan: Arab Spring clears way for press freedoms

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:52:18 -0400

AMMAN, Jordan - The Arab Spring uprisings that toppled four Arab leaders have forced Mideast governments to allow more freedom of expression and of the press, Jordan's prime minister said Monday, but critics charged that Jordan itself is not doing enough.

Ohio Tea Party groups long ago sounded alarm on IRS

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:49:15 -0400

By TOM TROY and VANESSA MCCRAY - Conservative Ohio groups more than a year ago raised the alarm that the Internal Revenue Service was holding up their applications for tax-exempt status, leading an Ohio lawmaker to request the audit that led to the IRS's recent admission that it targeted Tea Party-related groups for close scrutiny.

Correction: New Virus story

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:10:55 -0400

NEW YORK - In a story May 15 about a new SARS-like virus spreading from patients to health care workers in Saudi Arabia, The Associated Press reported erroneously the location of the 20 deaths attributed to the virus. There have been no deaths reported in France and Qatar, only in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Germany and Britain.

Jordan jet crashes near Syrian border, 2 killed

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:11:39 -0400

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan's military says a trainer jet has crashed near the Syrian border, killing its two Jordanian pilots.

Graham: Tiger's recipe for golf success

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:23:59 -0400

HOBE SOUND, Fla. - By MIKE GRAHAM

Voisin: NBA must stand for integrity in duel for Kings

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:22:08 -0400

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - By AILENE VOISIN

McNulty: Former NFL star, sports broadcaster Ahmad Rashad...

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:20:55 -0400

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - By RAY MCNULTY

New Utah forensic tool gets 'CSI' exposure

Tue, 07 May 2013 17:53:18 -0400

SALT LAKE CITY - By MICHAEL MCFALL

Profile: Boz Scaggs' 'Memphis' makes inviting musical...

Tue, 07 May 2013 17:49:31 -0400

By BOB MEHR - Boz Scaggs took it as a good omen, a kind of papal seal, when one of his childhood heroes, Bobby "Blue" Bland, showed up at his recording session last winter at Memphis' Royal Studios.

Syrian women giving birth in exile of refugee camp

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:11:41 -0400

ZAATARI, Jordan - In a tent hospital bed, a Syrian woman who was four months pregnant when she fled her country's civil war cradles one of the newest residents of this dust-swept refugee camp: Her newborn son, just delivered by cesarean.

Mysterious Hebrew stone displayed in Jerusalem

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:53:03 -0400

JERUSALEM - An ancient limestone tablet covered with a mysterious Hebrew text that features the archangel Gabriel is at the center of a new exhibit in Jerusalem, even as scholars continue to argue about what it means.

Mysterious Hebrew stone displayed in Jerusalem

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:16:29 -0400

Jordan: More than 45,000 refugees return to Syria

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:23:41 -0400

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan says that more 45,000 refugees in its territory who fled Syria's civil war have chosen to return since last August.

Moulton: Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland rolls the dice with Dion...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:27:30 -0400

By DAVID MOULTON - I don't know if Jeff Ireland is doing what's in the best interest of the Dolphins, but he certainly is doing what's in the best interest of Jeff Ireland.

Greg Norman says he's being pushed out of the Medalist Golf...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:27:32 -0400

HOBE SOUND, Fla. - By CRAIG DOLCH

Wife: American in Iraqi prison is on hunger strike

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:29:45 -0400

BAGHDAD - In Baghdad's maximum-security Karkh prison, Shawki Omar is triply damned, his supporters say.

Jordan's new government wins confidence vote

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:34:52 -0400

AMMAN, Jordan - The government of Jordan's Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour has won a vote of confidence after a week-long debate in parliament over price hikes and the two-year civil war in neighboring Syria.

Israeli focus on Syria gives Hagel respite on Iran

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:03:55 -0400

JERUSALEM - On Chuck Hagel's inaugural visit to Israel as U.S. defense secretary, Syria surpassed Iran as the security threat of greatest urgency to the U.S.' closest Mideast ally. That quite unexpectedly gave the new Pentagon chief a temporary respite from the delicate duty of tempering Israeli warnings about attacking Iran to stop it from building a nuclear bomb.

Kerry: NATO needs plan for Syrian chemical weapons

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:25:45 -0400

BRUSSELS - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged NATO on Tuesday to prepare for the possible use of chemical weapons by Syria on the same day that a senior Israeli military intelligence official said Syrian President Bashar Assad had used such weapons last month in his battle against insurgents.