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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two car bomb attacks on Syrian security sites in Damascus killed 30 people and wounded 55 others, most of them civilian, the Lebanese news channel Al Manar said Friday.

Al Manar cited information from its own correspondents on the ground. The television channel is owned by the powerful Lebanese Shi'ite party and guerrilla movement Hezbollah, a regional ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Several people were killed in the two blasts on Syrian security sites in Damascus, state television said on Friday.

"The terrorist attacks left a number of martyrs, both civilian and military. Most of the victims were civilian," it said in a news flash.

(Reporting by Erika Solomon)

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The United States on Thursday offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a key Al-Qaeda fundraiser, who is said to be a Syrian operating from Iran.

The reward for Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil marks the first time that a "terrorist financier" has been targeted in such a way, said Robert Hartung, assistant director for threat ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday announced it was establishing a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to Yasin al-Suri, who is accused of operating from Iran as a facilitator and financier for al Qaeda.

The bounty is the first offered for an al Qaeda financier and is aimed at disrupting a financial network that has ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A wave of bombings killed at least 63 people in Baghdad on Thursday, the first attacks since Iraq's Shi'ite-led government was engulfed in a crisis that risks fracturing the country along sectarian and ethnic faultlines.

The bombings, just days after the last U.S. troops left Iraq, marked a violent backlash against Shi'ite Prime Minister ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of bombings hit Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 63 people in the first big assault attack on Iraq's capital since a sectarian crisis erupted within its government just days after the U.S. troop withdrawal.

The apparently coordinated bombings were the first sign of a violent backlash against Shi'ite Muslim Prime Minister Nuri ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A rash of bombings hit Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 57 people in the first big attack on Iraq's capital since a crisis between its Shi'ite Muslim-led government and Sunni rivals erupted days after the U.S. troop withdrawal.

The apparently coordinated bombings were the first sign of rising violence after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of blasts and a suicide bomber hit mainly Shi'ite areas in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 40 people in the first major attack on Iraq's capital since a crisis erupted between its Shi'ite-led government and Sunni rivals just days after the U.S. troop withdrawal.

The apparently coordinated bombings were the first ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of blasts hit mainly Shi'ite areas in Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 17 people in the first wave of attacks on Iraq's capital since a crisis erupted between its Shi'ite-led government and Sunni rivals after the U.S. troop withdrawal.

The apparently coordinated attacks are the first sign of rising violence since Iraq ...

A top aide to President Barack Obama on Wednesday marked the 23rd anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing, vowing that Washington would pursue justice in a newly-free Libya for the 1988 attack.

Obama's top anti-terror advisor John Brennan joined relatives of the victims of the bombing of a US airliner over Scotland, which killed 270 people, at Arlington National Cemetery ...