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Syrian gunfire wounds Lebanese near border

TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Gunfire from the Syrian side of the border wounded a Lebanese man Saturday on a north Lebanon highway near the border. The man was shot and fell to the ground on the highway linking Abboudeyeh to Manjaz. The residents waited for the Lebanese Red Cross to...

Palestinian Refuge for 6 Decades, Now Flooded From Syria

SHATILA CAMP, Lebanon — An enormous iron key hangs on a water tower above a crossroads in the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila, just south of downtown Beirut. The sculpture alludes to the rusting keys that many families here treasure, from houses lost when they fled what became...

ISIS Launches Attack On Syria's Kobani From Turkey: Activists

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group launched an attack Saturday on the Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey, a Kurdish official and activists said, although Turkey denied that the fighters had used its territory for the raid. The assault began when a suicide bomber driving...

'At least 50 dead' in Nigeria mosque attack: Official

At least 50 people were killed in multiple blasts and sporadic gunfire in and around a prominent mosque in Nigeria's northwestern Kano State as Muslims observed Friday prayers, an emergency official has said. "I cannot tell you at the moment how many people died in total, but...