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Jews trek into Tunisia for famed pilgrimage
DJERBA, Tunisia — Under a bright Mediterranean sun Saturday, Jews whose forebears once thronged Tunisia are trekking to a celebrated synagogue under the protection of police — as organizers try to ...
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Associated Press U.S. soldiers cross a river in Afghanistan on a two-day mission to clear the area of explosives caches on April 10. The Taliban have announced they will launch their spring offensive today, signaling plans to step up attacks as the weather warms across Afghanistan, making both travel and fighting easier.
Taliban begin spring offensive
KABUL, Afghanistan — A NATO plane crash in southern Afghanistan killed four international troops on Saturday, the same day the Taliban announced its spring offensive and said it will target militar...
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Afghan troops hold ground at high cost
FORWARD OPERATING BASE CONNOLLY, Afghanistan — The Americans could be spotted waiting for the Chinooks in the 2 a.m. darkness only by the shape of their night-vision goggles, as they shared a cigar...
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Associated Press An Afghan police commander explains to local tribal elders how the Afghan security forces intend to search the elder villages for insurgents, with an elder accompanying each police team, hours after a combined force of Afghans and Americans encircled the town in a pre-dawn raid March 26. U.S. Brigade commander Col. Joseph McGee, of the U.S. Army 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, listens at right, at the Afghan army base next to Forward Operating Base Connolly, in Khogyani district, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan troops hold ground at high cost
FORWARD OPERATING BASE CONNOLLY, Afghanistan — The Americans could be spotted waiting for the Chinooks in the 2 a.m. darkness only by the shape of their night-vision goggles, as they shared a cigar...
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Associated Press A worker builds a security fence along the border between Israel and Syrian on the Golan Heights on Wednesday. Against a breathtaking vista of green fields and a snowcapped mountain range, all is silent but for a strong gust of wind whipping across the landscape. The tranquility is suddenly interrupted by a burst of gunfire from beyond a newly built fortified fence. Jihadi rebels are battling with Bashar Assad's battered troops in a nearby Syrian village. Watching it all unfold are Israeli soldiers atop tanks -- a sight unseen here in a generation -- and the sounds of explosions from a large-scale Israeli drill are distinctly heard in the background.
Israel fears end to 40-year peace on Syrian front lines
ALONEI HABASHAN, Golan Heights — Against a vista of green fields and snowcapped mountains, all is silent but for a gusting wind. Then comes a burst of gunfire from the Syrian civil war raging next ...
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Associated Press A Syrian Army tank travels the streets of the Jobar district of Damascus, Syria, on Friday. On the streets of Damascus, the two-year old conflict dragged on Friday, with government troops pushing into two northern neighborhoods, triggering heavy fighting with rebels as they tried to advance under air and artillery support, activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting between rebels and soldiers backed by pro-government militiamen was concentrated in the Jobar and Barzeh areas.
Syrian rebels call on world for action
BEIRUT — Syrian opposition groups called Friday for international action after the Obama administration said U.S. intelligence indicates President Bashar Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons. T...
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Growing demand from Chinese drains Europe baby food supply
BERLIN — Yong-Hee Kim still can’t believe that in a prosperous country like Germany, powdered baby formula would ever be rationed and that she would have to scour shops in the German capital to fin...
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War in Israel targets Orthodox Jews
JERUSALEM — A cultural war has erupted between Israel’s rising political star and his ultra-Orthodox rivals. Newly minted Finance Minister Yair Lapid, hugely popular for opposing the long-standing ...
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Iraq: 51 dead in clashes, bombing as tensions rise
BAGHDAD — Clashes erupted Wednesday between the Iraqi army and armed Sunni tribesmen who sealed off two central Iraqi towns, leaving 38 dead, just a day after a bloody incident involving soldiers a...
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Associated Press A woman whose relatives were killed in Saturday's earthquake cries while sitting on a pile of rubble in Lingguan township in Baoxing county of southwest China's Sichuan province on Sunday. Saturday's earthquake in Sichuan province killed at least 186 people, injured more than 11,000 and left nearly two dozen missing, mostly in the rural communities around Ya'an city, along the same fault line where a devastating quake to the north killed more than 90,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring areas five years ago in one of China's worst natural disasters.
China learned lessons from years ago
LUSHAN, China — The tent village that sprang up in two days to house quake survivors in mountain-flanked Lushan is no ordinary refugee camp. China’s full range of disaster response is on display: T...
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