BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian forces renewed their assault on the flashpoint city of Homs Tuesday as Russia’s foreign minister stressed the need for reform and dialogue during talks in Damascus with President Bashar Assad about the country’s escalating violence.
JERUSALEM (AP) — While Israeli leaders are increasingly sounding belligerent warnings of a potential military strike against Iran’s nuclear installations, a group of Iranian-Israelis are transmitting a different message.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Vandals attacked a monastery in Jerusalem and a prominent school with a mixed Jewish-Arab student body on Tuesday, and police said they suspected Jewish extremists were behind the violence.
BEIJING (AP) — In 1985, Xi Jinping led a delegation to Muscatine, Iowa, to study advanced hog-raising techniques. He comes back next week, preparing to lead the world’s most populous nation.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say “death to Christians” and other Hebrew-language graffiti has been scrawled on a Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem.