Mes: agosto 2019

(AP) BEIRUT – Missiles fired by Syrian warplanes hit Lebanese territory Monday in one of the most serious cross-border violations since Syria’s crisis began 18 months ago, security officials in Beirut and Lebanese state media said. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said four missiles fired by two Syrian jets hit a rugged and remote area on the edge of the Lebanese border town of Arsal. No casualties were immediately reported. Lebanese President Michel Suleiman ordered an investigation into the border shelling Monday, without openly blaming Syria. Foreign fighters making Syrian rebels radicalIran edmits to elite troops in Syria “advising”Egypt hosts 2-way summit with Iran More in After the Arab Spring Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that the warplanes fired three missiles that fell on the outskirts of Arsal about 500 meters (yards) from the border between the two countries. “I heard several explosions and saw four clouds of dust billowing from the area,” Arsal resident Nayeh Izzedine said by telephone referring to the border. “I don’t know if it was an air raid but there was a plane in the sky.” He added that the town had been quiet two hours after the 10 a.m. attack. The Syrian forces were believed to be chasing rebels in the area, which has been the site of clashes in the past between opposition fighters battling...

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(CBS/AP) KABUL, Afghanistan The Taliban claimed responsibility on Saturday for an attack against a sprawling British base in southern Afghanistan that killed two U.S. Marines and wounded several other troops, saying it was to avenge an anti-Islamic film that insulted the Prophet Muhammad, and because Britain’s Prince Harry is serving there. Taliban spokesman Kari Yousef Ahmed told CBS News the primary motive for the attack was the film, but the base was picked as the place to attack because of Prince Harry’s presence there. The U.S.-led NATO coalition said in a statement that the overnight attack focused on Camp Bastion, a huge British base adjacent to Camp Leatherneck, which houses U.S. Marine operations in southern Helmand province. “We attacked that base because Prince Harry was also on it and so they can know our anger,” Taliban spokesman Qari Youssef Ahmadi told The Associated Press by telephone. He added, “Thousands more suicide attackers are ready to give up their lives for the sake of the Prophet.” Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, is based at Camp Bastion. A spokesperson for Britain’s Ministry of Defense told the AP he was unharmed in the attack which, according to Britain’s Press Association, took place a mile from the section of the complex where the prince was located. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with government policy. Capt....

(AP) CAIRO – Egypt’s president on Saturday stressed the need for his country to have a bigger role in international affairs, using his first local television interview to urge the Syrian government to end the carnage coursing through Cairo’s onetime ally. “The Syrian regime needs to understand that the continuation of bloodshed goes against all laws, desires, history and humanity,” Mohammed Morsi said in the hour-long interview, broadcast on state TV. The one-on-one interview addressed a range of issues facing the new president, who was sworn into office on June 30 in the country’s first free presidential elections. He assumed the post after a rocky transitional period governed by the country’s military, which took power after last year’s uprising that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak. Egypt’s uprising inspired others in the region, including in Syria. More in After the Arab Spring “Egypt is not on the sidelines of this problem. There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people,” Morsi said, in a reference to the shortly-lived alliance that ended in 1961 between Egypt and Syria, when both nations shared the same flag as part of a union. “The Syrian struggle pains us now, pains all people of the region.” Rebels move command center from Turkey to SyriaAssad: Syrian rebels will be defeated Syria’s bloody 18-month conflict, which activists say has killed nearly...

(AP) WASHINGTON – A U.S. State Department spokesperson said Thursday the U.S. does not see any willingness on Cuba’s part to seriously discuss the release of imprisoned American contactor Alan Gross, and urged Havana to send him home as a humanitarian gesture. State Department spokeswoman Neda Brown was responding to a senior Cuban diplomat’s comment Wednesday that her country was prepared to negotiate a solution in the case and was awaiting a U.S. response. Gross was working on a USAID-funded democracy building program when he was arrested in 2009 at Havana’s Jose Marti airport. He says he was only trying to provide Internet service to the island’s small Jewish community. Cuba says the multimillion-dollar programs are an effort by Washington to undermine the government, and has noted that Gross was carrying sophisticated communications equipment. Wife sees American jailed in Cuba, fears he’ll dieOfficial: Cuba ready to talk about Gross caseNY rabbi meets with jailed American in Cuba Gross was sentenced to 15 years, and has lost his final appeal, leaving him out of legal options. Previously, senior officials in Cuban President Raul Castro’s government have raised the case of five Cuban agents sentenced to long jail terms in the United States, though they have not spelled out publicly that they are seeking an exchange for the 63-year-old Maryland man, who has been held for 2 and 1/2 years. “The...