DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Bashar Assad declared a general amnesty Monday for prisoners in the country, state media reported, less than a week after he was re-elected to another seven-year term amid a bloody civil war. It was not clear how many — if any — prisoners would be...

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  Reporting by Abdullah Raja   (Zaman Alwasl)-   Sources refuted rumors saying that former Free Syrian Army leader had left north Syria to Arab Gulf after being ousted last February. General Salim Idriss still a military...

In desperate efforts to gain ground on battlefields, frustrated governments in the Mideast and Africa are using barrel bombs against their enemies, launching the cheap, quickly manufactured weapons as a crude counter to roadside blasts and suicide explosions that insurgents have...