Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons
BEIRUT (AP) — Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found…
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A look at `enforced disappearances' worldwide
The U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is pressing governments to provide information about open cases. Over the…
Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado
BEIRUT (AP) — About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near…
Hints of political change on horizon in Algeria
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The Arab Spring may finally be en route to Algeria.
Bomb kills 28 at Sunni mosque in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — A bomb killed 28 people at a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, hitting worshippers as they were emerging from Friday…
Bomb kills 26 at Sunni mosque in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say that a bomb has killed 26 at a Sunni mosque in central Iraq.
Iran may ban candidates who seek ties with US
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The head of Iran's constitutional watchdog says it may disqualify candidates in June presidential elections who…
Report: Bahrain police search home of top cleric
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A main opposition group in Bahrain says police have searched the home of the Gulf nation's most senior Shiite…
Iraqis mourn 2 Shiite fighters killed in Syria
BASRA, Iraq (AP) — Hundreds of Iraqis attended the Friday funeral in a southern city of two Shiite fighters killed in Syria. Several…
CIA chief makes unannounced Israel visit
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli defense official says the head of the American CIA spy agency has made an unannounced visit to Israel.
