Tag: Syria

Syrian refugees children sit outside their tent at a Syrian refugee camp in the eastern town of Marj in Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Sunday, June 29, 2014. Across a wide belt that stretches halfway around the globe, the world's estimated 1.6 billion Muslims mark the beginning of Ramadan this weekend. The holy season is marred by unprecedented turmoil, violence and sectarian hatreds that threaten to rip apart the Middle East, the epicenter of Islam. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

UN warns of serious threat in Syria refugee crisis

John Heilprin · July 3, 2014 10:23 am

The U.S. cargo vessel MV Cape Ray leaves the Gioia Tauro port, southern Italy, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Cargo containers carrying hundreds of tons of Syrian chemical weapons were loaded onto a U.S. cargo ship Wednesday for destruction at sea, one of the final phases of the international effort to rid Syria of its chemical weapon stockpile. The chemicals had crossed the Mediterranean aboard the Danish ship Ark Futura, which steamed into the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro as the sun rose Wednesday. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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US ship sails off to destroy Syrian weapons at sea

FRANCESCO SPORTELLINICOLE WINFIELD · July 3, 2014 12:51 am

In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 1, 2014 an Iraqi woman inspects her damaged house after clashes between fighters of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Iraqi security forces in central Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced this week that it has unilaterally established a caliphate in the areas under its control. It declared the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of its new self-styled state governed by Shariah law and demanded that all Muslims pledge allegiance to him. (AP Photo)

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Militants try to tighten their grip in Iraq, Syria

RYAN LUCASZEINA KARAM · July 2, 2014 9:41 pm

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Chechen in Syria a rising star in extremist group

Bassem Mroue · July 2, 2014 4:28 pm

The MV Cape Ray is escorted by tug boats as it arrives at Gioia Tauro port, southern Italy, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Syria's acknowledged stockpile of chemical weapons has been handed over to Western governments for destruction. 1300 tons of chemical weapons are currently on the Danish cargo ship Ark Futura and are expected be transferred to the U.S.-owned MV Cape Ray at Gioia Tauro. The Cape Ray, equipped with two titanium reactors, will then move into international waters to neutralize Syria's stockpile of sulphur mustard and the raw components for making sarin nerve gas over the next two months. Other materials will be disposed of at toxic wastes sites in various countries. (AP Photo/Adriana Sapone)

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US ship arrives in Italy port for Syria weapons

FRANCESCO SPORTELLINICOLE WINFIELD · July 1, 2014 5:54 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014, an al-Qaida-inspired militant stands guard at a checkpoint captured from the Iraqi Army outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The al-Qaida breakaway group that has seized much of northern Syria and huge tracks of neighboring Iraq formally declared the creation of an Islamic state on Sunday, June 29, in the territory under its control. (AP Photo, File)

Jihadi group captures Syrian border town

Barbara Surk · July 1, 2014 3:14 pm

Islamic state declaration could lead to schism

RYAN LUCASSAMEER N. YACOUB · June 30, 2014 4:57 pm

FILE - In this Monday, June 16, 2014 file photo, demonstrators chant slogans to support al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as they carry al-Qaida flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. The al-Qaida breakaway group that has seized much of northern Syria and huge tracks of neighboring Iraq formally declared the creation of an Islamic state on Sunday, June 29, in the territory under its control. (AP Photo, File)

Successors to the prophet: Islam’s caliphates

Joseph Krauss · June 30, 2014 4:47 pm

Mortar shells hit northern Syrian city, killing 14

Mortar shells hit northern Syrian city, killing 14

ALBERT AJIBARBARA SURK · June 30, 2014 2:25 pm

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Zogby Report Card: Obama has ‘lost public trust in his leadership’

Paul Bedard · June 28, 2014 10:00 am

FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. Moderate Syrian rebels are buckling under the onslaught of the radical al-Qaida breakaway group that has swept over large parts of Iraq and Syria. Some rebels are giving up the fight, crippled by lack of weapons and frustrated with the power of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Other, more hard-line Syrian fighters are bending to the winds and joining the radicals. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Syrian rebels buckling in face of jihadis

Zeina Karam · June 28, 2014 12:11 am

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Kerry: Syrian moderate rebels could help in Iraq

LARA JAKESJULIE PACE · June 27, 2014 8:15 pm