Posted: 1:08 PM Israeli airstrikes in Syria's capital are raising fears the civil war there could widen into a regional conflict.

Posted: 1:29 PM It's been a deadly for Americans in Afghanistan.

Posted: 12:02 PM President Barack Obama says the U.S. places great importance on its trading relationships with Latin America and will keep working to improve those ties and help the region become more competitive.

Updated: 11:58 AM There are varying reports of exactly how many people were killed in the Syrian town of Banias yesterday, but the incident is prompting an exodus of Sunni Muslims from the Mediterranean city.

Posted: 11:53 AM The U.S.-led coalition says an Afghan army soldier has killed two international service members in Afghanistan.

Posted: 11:10 AM A Pakistan police officer says twin blasts in the southern city of Karachi have killed three people near the office of a political party critical of the Taliban.

Updated: 8:32 PM American officials say Israel launched an airstrike against a suspected weapons site in Syria.

Posted: 5:04 PM President Barack Obama says he doesn't foresee sending U.S. ground troops into Syria.

Posted: 4:50 PM Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry has confirmed three more cases of a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 10 the number of cases it reported this week, including five deadly ones.

Posted: 3:50 PM The search for three crew members of an American military refueling plane has been suspended for the night.

Posted: 3:32 PM President Barack Obama is opening a two-day trip to Costa Rica, his first stop in the Central American nation as president.

Posted: 3:23 PM Mexico's governmental rights commission says 84 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, and 20 more have disappeared since 2005.

Posted: 3:20 PM British officials are holding off on plans for a state-backed media watchdog, the first sign that opposition from the newspaper industry is slowing down efforts to more closely regulate the country's scandal-tainted press.

Posted: 4:47 PM Public Defender Earl Witter says his office is probing complaints that 44 of the 76 civilian deaths could have been unjustifiable homicides.

Posted: 4:44 PM The ministry said on Thursday that it had informed the World Health Organization of the seven new cases of novel coronavirus.

Posted: 4:41 PM That meeting in Almaty, Kazakhstan, ended on April 6 with the two sides still far apart.

Posted: 4:37 PM Two generals and two lawmakers, have been arrested after attempting to overthrow the government.

Posted: 4:23 PM For the first time, the Catholic Church has a retired pope living alongside the reigning pope.

Posted: 4:13 PM President Barack Obama says his administration is looking at every option to end the bloodshed in Syria.

Posted: 11:06 AM Chad's state prosecutor says four officials, including two generals and two lawmakers, have been arrested after attempting to overthrow the government of the Central African nation in a coup d'etat.

Updated: 3:51 PM Dozens of garment workers in Bangladesh have been buried in a mass funeral -- workers whose bodies were too battered or decomposed to be identified.

Posted: 3:39 PM Mexican authorities say six employees of the Attorney General's Office have been killed in the crash of a small plane, and a newspaper says an auditors' report indicated months ago that the aircraft fleet for prosecutors was in bad shape.

Posted: 3:34 PM The Dominican Republic has dug up the grave of one of the country's national heroes to make sure the remains are really his before he is re-buried in the national cemetery.

Posted: 3:22 PM Police in Peru say the body of a Chilean man accused in the ritual killing of a 3-day-old boy in his homeland has been found hanging from a rope in an abandoned house.

Posted: 2:07 PM The U.S. State Department says it has no plans to remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism when it issues an upcoming annual report on terrorism.