Sunday, 29 December 2013
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In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese Army soldiers ride on their military vehicles during a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of Lebanon's independence from France in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 22, 2013.
The Guardian Wave of attacks have fuelled fears that Syria's neighbour could be slipping back towards full-blown sectarian conflict The scene of a deadly car bombing in Beirut. Photograph: Nabil Mounzer/EPA...
In this photo taken on a cell phone, made available by Volgograd Mayor's Office, emergency services approach a square outside a main entrance of the Volgograd railway station, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013.
The Guardian VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press= MOSCOW (AP) — A suicide bomber struck a busy railway station in southern Russia on Sunday, killing herself and at least 15 others and wounding scores more,...
A pro-European Union activist shouts a slogan during a rally in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013.
BBC News Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have gathered again in Kiev in a fresh show of force by the month-old anti-government protest movement. Many demonstrators also marched on President Viktor...
U.S. Army soldiers with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, from Forward Operating Base Torkham, conduct a dismounted patrol from one of their observation points to an Afghan Border Police checkpoint, Nov. 18, 2013.
Denver Post WASHINGTON — A new American intelligence assessment on the Afghan war predicts that the gains the United States and its allies have made during the past three years are likely to have been...