Middle East

A mobile missile launcher is positioned at a military base on the Turkish-Syrian border at Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October 6, 2012.

Turkey Says Syria Fires Again Across Border

Military returns fire after mortar round landed in rural area amid intense clashes in the Syrian border province of Idlib More

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses an audience at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul, October 5, 2012.

Video Turkey Warns Syria About Cross-Border Attacks

In fiery speech Friday in Istanbul, PM Erdogan says regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should not test Turkey's ability to strike back More

Jordanian Islamic Action Front secretary general Hamza Mansour, center, joined about 15,000 marchers demanding constitutional reforms during in Amman on Oct. 5, 2012. (AP)

Amman Rally Calls for Major Reforms in Jordan

Islamists and loyalists join to demand more electoral rights, press freedom and an end to government corruption in Hashemite kingdom More

Gregorius Lahham, the Greek Melkite Patriarch of Antioch, meets with a group of women in the patriarchate in the Christian quarter of Damascus, Syria, September 6, 2012.

Video Syrian Christians Caught in Sectarian Fears

Father Rafi Halawe says dozens of minority religious groups are searching for peaceful resolution More

Voice of America's satellite dishes in Washington, D.C.

Iran Jams VOA's Satellite Broadcasts

Broadcasting Board of Governors says jamming has disrupted several of VOA's and Radio Free Europe's Persian broadcasts More



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