Slobodan Lekic

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In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 photo, Syrian rebels attend a training session in Maaret Ikhwan, near Idlib, Syria.The new Syrian rebel chief, a defected army general who spent months in exile, says he has begun operating inside Syria to unite autonomous anti-regime militias for what he hopes will be the final push against President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

UN: Syrian civil war increasingly sectarian

Slobodan Lekic · December 20, 2012 11:28 am

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens gather next to cars that were destroyed by a car bomb in Qatana, (25) kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. A bomb blast near a school in a Damascus suburb killed more than a dozen people, at least half of them women and children, the state news agency reported. Russia, Syria's most important international ally, said for the first time that President Bashar Assad is increasingly losing control and the opposition may win the civil war. (AP Photo/SANA)

Turkey Patriot defenses to be ready next month

Slobodan Lekic · December 13, 2012 7:15 pm

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, second left, speaks with an unidentified member of his delegation as he arrives for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. NATO foreign ministers are expected to approve Turkey's request for Patriot anti-missile systems to bolster its defense against possible strikes from neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

NATO backs Patriot anti-missile system for Turkey

Slobodan Lekic, Bradley Klapper · December 4, 2012 7:01 pm

Afghan army, police take increasing casualties

Slobodan Lekic · December 3, 2012 2:53 pm

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, a U.S. soldier stands next to a Patriot surface-to-air missile battery at an army base in Morag, Poland. Turkey's government requested the deployment of NATO's Patriot surface-to-air missiles on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012 to bolster its defenses along its border with Syria and prevent a spillover of the civil war in that nation, officials said. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Deployment of Patriots to Turkey could take weeks

Slobodan Lekic · November 22, 2012 5:00 am

Germany: Turkey will ask NATO for Patriot missiles

Slobodan Lekic · November 19, 2012 12:13 pm

Afghanistan shortlists 3 companies for oil project

Slobodan Lekic · November 12, 2012 11:43 am

Gunman in Afghan uniform kills British soldier

Slobodan Lekic · November 12, 2012 4:37 am

Taliban leader says insider attacks will increase

Slobodan Lekic · October 24, 2012 5:51 pm

Egyptian president, EU to focus on economy

Slobodan Lekic · September 12, 2012 2:00 pm

EU: Anti-dumping probe into China solar panels

Slobodan Lekic · September 6, 2012 10:54 am

NATO vows action on insider attacks in Afghanistan

Slobodan Lekic · September 4, 2012 4:00 am