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Sanctions against Syria’s oil industry are taking a substantial toll, draining $4 billion from the country’s economy so far and causing widespread fuel shortages.
Lebanese factions supporting and opposing the Syrian government fought in Beirut on Monday, leaving several people dead.
Ahmed Shafik, a prime minister under former President Hosni Mubarak, and Hamdeed Sabahi, a socialist, appear to be gaining support before the election.
The crackdown on the demonstration at Aleppo University came less than a week after it had reopened following a raid by security forces that left at least four students dead.
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said in an interview broadcast Wednesday that he faced no real domestic opposition in the 15-month-old uprising against him.
The monitors escaped unscathed, but three of their vehicles were damaged by some kind of explosive device. Activist organizations said the confrontation killed around 20 and wounded dozens.
Iran said that the man, identified as Majid Jamali Fashi, was responsible for the assassination of one of its nuclear scientists.
A few years ago, the day’s toll would have been a footnote in Iraq, when it was not uncommon for 100 people to be killed in one day.
The State Department could jettison a multibillion-dollar training effort by the end of 2012 that has emerged as the latest high-profile example of America’s waning influence in the country.
Two of the leading candidates to become Egypt’s next president traded barbs about their political histories and arguments about the role of religion in public life.
Saudi Arabia and the United States have worked closely together against a militant network in Yemen, most recently foiling an effort to smuggle a bomb onto a jetliner.
In an extraordinary intelligence coup, the would-be suicide bomber dispatched by the Al Qaeda branch in Yemen last month infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the mission, officials said.
Terrorists in Yemen planned to smuggle an experimental bomb aboard an airliner bound for the United States.


The generals’ willingness to submit to civilian authority will determine whether last year’s uprising lives up to its billing as a democratic revolution or amounts instead to a coup.
The bloody repression of the student protest on Thursday by Syrian forces further eroded a truce negotiated under United Nations auspices.


With the revival of talks — which went unexpectedly well — and domestic differences arising in Israel, the odds of imminent conflict have decreased, experts and American officials say.
A United Nations-backed plan has failed to stop the fighting in Syria, but supporters still hope for a chance to organize the opposition, sway Russia and prevent all-out civil war.


A suicide bomber attacked a group of Syrian security forces as state media reported at least two other bombings around the capital.
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