Pakistan quake toll rises to 208The death toll from a powerful earthquake in southwestern Pakistan rose to at least 208 people on Wednesday after hundreds of houses collapsed in a remote mountainous area, a local official said. "We have started to bury the More… |
Across enemy lines, wounded Syrians seek Israeli careNot a hundred miles from Damascus, a Syrian rebel lies in a hospital bed, an Israeli sentry at the door. Nearby a Syrian mother sits next to her daughter, shot in the back by a sniper. What started this year as a trickle is now a More… |
Wounded Syria nears threshold of civil warWhatever label the world gives it, Syria's worsening conflict justifies a UN warning of imminent civil war following massacres that have heightened the risk of widespread sectarian violence. Political analysts say several powerful fact More… |
US military trainer shot in YemenUnidentified assailants shot and seriously wounded a US military instructor in Yemen on Sunday, while the army closed in on a town controlled by al Qaeda-linked fighters in heavy fighting that killed at least 27 people, local officials said. More… |
Car bomb kills 5, wounds 18 in Iraq capitalA car bomb exploded near a group of labourers in a mainly Shi'ite area of Iraq's capital on Tuesday, killing at least five people and wounding 18 others, police and hospital sources said. The blast occurred More… |