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By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
MALEH, West Bank — In remote Palestinian villages of the northern Jordan Valley, children read by gas lamp, and water must be...
By David S. Cloud, Paul Richter and Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday condemned Russia's delivery of advanced antiship missiles to Syria and its buildup...
By Raja Abdulrahim, Los Angeles Times
MARAAT NUMAN, Syria — Each morning, after saluting the Syrian flag and before the warplanes take off, soldiers at army bases across...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Disclosure of a highly classified intelligence operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee Thursday that the U.S. would be at war with Al Qaeda for 15 to 20 more...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thursday ruled out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria even if proof emerges that Syrian forces...
By Ramin Mostaghim and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — Iranians must wait until next week to find out who will be on the ballot in next month's presidential election, a key...
By Raja Abdulrahim, Los Angeles Times
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — His phone doesn't ring and his charts are gloomy.
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama faces a fresh test Thursday of his determination to steer clear of the civil war in Syria when he...
By Glen Johnson and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Deadly weekend car bombings in a southern Turkish city have galvanized domestic opposition to the government's...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Syria on Sunday rejected Turkish charges that Damascus was behind a pair of devastating car bomb attacks in southern Turkey...
By Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — The run-up to Iran's June presidential election took a dramatic turn Saturday with last-minute candidacy announcements by two...
By Christi Parsons and Ken Dilanian, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Email traffic exchanged during the drafting of talking points about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound...
By Kim Murphy
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial of Army Sgt. John Russell concluded Saturday with a military judge asked to decide...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — At least 42 people were reported dead Saturday in a pair of car bombings in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli, the latest...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein made headlines recently by demanding a forceful U.S. response to Syria's use of chemical weapons...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — Less than a year and a half after the last U.S. troops left, Iraq's political leaders are openly debating the prospect of...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The new U.S.-Russia peace initiative for Syria will inevitably lead to the departure of President Bashar Assad, Secretary...
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK — A Tunisian citizen who prosecutors say radicalized one of the men accused of plotting to derail a Toronto-to-New York...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Wednesday that would sharply toughen U.S. economic sanctions on...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Minutes after Greg Hicks learned that the perimeter of the U.S. mission in Benghazi had been breached by men with guns,...
By Sergei L. Loiko and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — The United States and Russia agreed Tuesday to try to bring together the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad and...
By Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — Iranian presidential candidates began registering Tuesday for the national election next month to choose a successor to...
By Edmund Sanders and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — With three airstrikes against Syria since January, Israel has inserted itself forcefully into the "Arab Spring's" most...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, David S. Cloud and Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Huge explosions were reported in Damascus early Sunday, just two days after a reported Israeli airstrike in Syria targeting...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security used disproportionate force, including shooting unarmed civilians, during a raid on an encampment of Sunni...
By Ned Parker and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
ARSAL, Lebanon — When Mustafa Ezzedine, a Sunni Muslim from this Sunni border town, wanted to buy some furniture, he undertook a...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Hold the martini, please.
By Paul Richter and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The White House is considering providing weapons to the Syrian rebels, officials said Tuesday, but no decision is...
By Rasha Elass, Los Angeles Times
DAMASCUS, Syria — White daffodils and violet daisies waxed aromatic from the crystal vase on the young couple's dining table....
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — Shiite-dominated areas in southern and central Iraq were rocked Monday by car bomb explosions that killed at least 22 people...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — Four Iraqi soldiers were shot dead Saturday, the day after Sunni Arab tribes in the restive western province of Anbar...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government ordered 10 predominantly Sunni Muslim satellite television channels to cease broadcasting Sunday,...
By Paul Richter, Ken Dilanian and David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies unanimously agree that Syrians have been exposed to deadly sarin gas in recent weeks, but they...
By David S. Cloud and Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The White House said for the first time that there was evidence Syria had used chemical weapons in its civil war, but...
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The Syrian government says its forces this week seized a strategic township east of Damascus after weeks of fighting, but...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Israel said Thursday that it shot down an unmanned aircraft that had entered Israeli airspace off the northern coast...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi casts himself as a leader navigating a landscape bristling with conspiracies by...
By Edmund Sanders and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Israel's accusation that Syria used chemical weapons against rebels raises the prospect that Damascus crossed what...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Security forces for the Shiite-led Iraqi government raided a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on Tuesday, igniting...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — Egypt's besieged justice minister has submitted his resignation after protests over the weekend by Islamists, who want to...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
GIZA, Egypt — The woman with crates of unsold tomatoes breathed in the boisterous music of slum life: creaking shutters, squawking...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Secretary of State John F. Kerry urged Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to delay a planned visit to...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Divisions between Syrian rebels and their foreign supporters came into focus Saturday as a leading opposition group...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Growing up poor and motherless in the slums of Jerusalem's Old City, Amoun Sleem dropped out of school at age 7 after...
By Ken Dilanian and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The British and French governments have asked the United Nations to investigate what they believe is credible evidence...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John F. Kerry implored Congress on Thursday not to impose tough new sanctions on Iran, warning that...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Jordan, the vanguard of a potential U.S. military force of 20,000 or more...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad warned in a television interview Wednesday that the war against his government risked spreading...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John F. Kerry told Congress on Wednesday that any chance of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
By Raja Abdulrahim, Los Angeles Times
ANTAKYA, Turkey — In newly printed textbooks at dozens of Syrian refugee schools, a small piece of Middle East geography has been...
By Ned Parker and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad issued an order Tuesday freeing up to 7,000 prison inmates, but it was not clear whether the...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — The Mass was celebrated as if from centuries past: A bearded priest veiled in incense chanted for grace in a church along...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi, at least for the moment, appears to be channeling his softer side.
By Ramin Mostaghim and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — The reform movement that took to the streets to protest alleged vote-rigging in Iran's last presidential election has been...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
By Rasha Elass and Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
DAMASCUS, Syria — A suicide car bombing in central Damascus killed at least 15 people and wounded 53 on Monday, Syrian state...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
ZINTAN, Libya — The prized scion of Moammar Kadafi is a prisoner of tribesmen in these mountains of scrub and ocher rock.
By Paul Richter and Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Iranian officials did not directly respond Friday to the latest American-backed offer to curb Tehran's disputed nuclear...
By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times
After much debate that brought the passions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to campus, UC Riverside's student government has reversed...
By Raja Abdulrahim, Los Angeles Times
JABAL AL-ZAWIYA, Syria — The rebel commander Jamal Maroof was fiddling with his iPhone when a young man brought him news.
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — He arrived with a prankster's aplomb.
By Raja Abdulrahim, Los Angeles Times
REYHANLI, Turkey — The Syrian opposition fighter arrived unexpectedly at Dr. Mazen Kewara's office at the Syrian American Medical...
By Batsheva Sobelman, Los Angeles Times
TEL AVIV — Israel's highest-ranking female soldier says efforts to draft male ultra-Orthodox students into the Israel Defense Forces...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the geopolitical winner of the war appears...
By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities arrested and charged a 30-year-old U.S. Army veteran turned Middle East "freedom fighter" with...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — The Muslim women in Marwa Adel's photographs are shadows, repressed by custom, religion, marriage and regret. While nude,...
By John Horn, Los Angeles Times
Israel's Shin Bet — think of it as a combination of the CIA and the FBI — prides itself on secrecy. So when documentary...
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