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Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 18th

By KARIN LAUBAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country's politics, raising new doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and

Senate panel approves US ambassador to Libya

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 14th

By DONNA CASSATAAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Libya, a post that has been vacant since insurgents attacked the diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September, killing

Anti-militias protesters attacked in Libya

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 10th

By ESAM MOHAMED and MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Scores of Libyan militiamen descended on rally in the nation's capital, Tripoli, kicking and beating protesters who had taken to the streets Friday as part of a call for mass demonstrations against the country's unruly

Syrian troops advance in central city of Homs

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 2nd

By BARBARA SURKAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - Backed by warplanes, Syrian government troops pushed Thursday into the central districts of the city of Homs in an effort to oust rebels from the country's third largest urban center, activists said. The regime pounded rebel-held districts with

Syrian TV: Bombing in Damascus kills 13 people

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 30th

By ALBERT AJIAssociated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A powerful bomb rocked central Damascus on Tuesday, killing 13 people according to Syrian TV, and sowing fear and chaos in a busy commercial district of the capital for the second consecutive day. The Syrian prime minister narrowly escaped an

Lawmaker: FBI checking training angle in bombing

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 28th

WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the FBI is investigating in the United States and overseas to determine whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing received training that helped them carry out the attack. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is

Authorities say bomb suspects planned NYC attack

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 26th

By COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Armed with a pressure-cooker explosive and five pipe bombs, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing made a spur-of-the-moment decision last week to give the Big Apple a taste of their mayhem, New York officials say. The

Activists: Syrian regime airstrikes kill 25

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 14th

By RYAN LUCASAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian government warplanes carried out airstrikes on a rebellious neighborhood in the capital and a village in the country's northeast on Sunday, killing at least 25 people, including a dozen children, activists said. With its ground forces stretched

Berezovsky's billions: How the tycoon lost so much

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 25th

By RAPHAEL SATTERAssociated Press LONDON (AP) - How do you burn through billions? The unexplained death of Boris Berezovsky, whose body was found Saturday inside his upscale English home, has refocused attention on the fantastic wealth racked up by Russia's ruthless oligarchs - and their

Syria: Bombing kills top pro-Assad Sunni preacher

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 21st

By ZEINA KARAMAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - A suicide bomb ripped through a mosque in the heart of the Syrian capital Thursday, killing a top Sunni Muslim preacher and outspoken supporter of President Bashar Assad in one of the most stunning assassinations of Syria's 2-year-old civil war. At