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This image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed Monday, July 30, 2012, purports to show Free Syrian Army soldiers in Anadan 16 kilometers (10 miles), from Aleppo, Syria.

Hezbollah leader affirms support for Assad in Syria
The Los Angeles Times

BEIRUT — The leader of the militant group Hezbollah on Saturday aligned his powerful movement squarely behind the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad and vowed victory against Syrian rebels, whom he assailed as proxy warriors for the West and Israel. The televised comments by Hassan Nasrallah were the most definitive to date rallying...
photo: AP / Ugarit News via AP video

Broadwell expresses remorse for Petraeus affair

FILE - This July 13, 2011 file photo, made available on the International Security Assistance Force's Flickr website shows the former Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Gen. Davis Petraeus, left, shaking hands with Paula Broadwell, co-author of "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus." Petraeus resigned as CIA director over his extramarital affair with his biographer, Broadwell.

Boston Herald

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship. Paula Broadwell told...
photo: AP / ISAF, File

Chinese media: North Korea envoy offers talks

In this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed by the Korea News Service (KNS) in Tokyo, North Korean envoy Choe Ryong Hae, center right, tours the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (BDA), an industrial park in the southern part of Beijing, Thursday, May 23, 2013.

The Guardian

BEIJING (AP) — A North Korean envoy, on the second day of his fence-mending visit to ally China, heeded Beijing's wishes by offering to renew nuclear disarmament talks, Chinese state media said. The accounts depicted Thursday's meeting between North...
photo: AP

Obama Lifts Ban on Guantanamo Transfers to Yemen

A supporter of President Barack Obama uses a digital camera to snap a picture during a fundraiser at Southern Maine Community College, Friday, March, 30, 2012 in Portland, Maine.

The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where a leadership upheaval has improved the country's security but not eliminated the terrorist organization trying to recruit...
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech

The Hon Barack Obama and the Prime Minister of Denmark

Kansas City Star

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to address some of the thornier aspects of national security policy, including drone strikes, the prison at Guantanamo Bay and the dire threats Americans continue to face - even from...
photo: White House / Pete Souza

Kerry warns Assad over Syria violence

Syrian President Bashar Assad reacts as he speaks to the media with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul, not seen, following their talks at the Ottoman-era Ciragan Palace, Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, May 8, 2010.

Al Jazeera

The US Secretary of State is warning Syria's President that the opposition will be given wide support if Bashar al-Assad refuses to negotiate on a peace deal. John Kerry is meeting with foreign ministers in the Jordanian capital, in an attempt to end...
photo: AP / Ibrahim Usta

Report: Palestinian organizations use U.S. funding to demonize Israel

The Examiner

On Tuesday, a report presented to Congress by Jerusalem-based watchdog NGO Monitor showed that several NGOs (“non-government organizations”) in the region that receive U.S. tax dollars are hostile toward Israel and the peace process. Gerald M....
photo: UN / Evan Schneider

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