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Venice premiers first-ever Saudi film

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (second right) welcomes Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi for the opening session of the Nonaligned Movement summit in Tehran on Aug. 30, 2012. (Associated Press/Iranian Presidency Office)

Egypt leader slams Syrian regime during Iran visit

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network purports to show Syrian Pilot Col. Rafik Mohammed Suleiman being interrogated by a rebel officer Aug. 13, 2012, after his Soviet-made MiG warplane was apparently hit by ground fire over Deir el-Zour province, an area near the Iraqi border. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network)

Syrian foreign minister: Rebels no match for military

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Illustration China's Aid to Africa by John Camejo for The Washington Times

THALER: China’s foreign aid to Africa

By Farah Thaler

Sarah Attar competes for Saudi Arabia in a women's 800-meter heat at the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Games in London on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. Attar is the first Saudi woman to compete in track and field at the Olympics. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

London Olympics 2012: Sarah Attar is first Saudi woman on track

By Eddie Pells and Pat Graham - Associated Press

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (right) and former Syrian Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlass pause for the media before a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner at Mr. Davutoglu’s residence in Ankara on July 26. The general, after defecting from Syria, made his surprise visit to Turkey soon afterward. Gen. Tlas says he defected when he realized that longtime friend President Bashar Assad could not be deterred from crushing opposition to his regime. But some Syrians suspect his motives may be political. (Associated Press)

Syria rebels suspicious over defector’s motives

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

The Washington Times

EIBNER: Islamic extremists threaten Syria’s Christians

By John Eibner

This undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows a MQ-9 Reaper, armed with GBU-12 Paveway II laser guided munitions and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, piloted by Col. Lex Turner during a combat mission over southern Afghanistan. U.S. and Pakistani officials say Pakistan’s intelligence chief will head to Washington late this month to resume counterterrorism talks suspended over a deadly border incident last year that killed two dozen Pakistani troops. (AP Photo/Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt, US Air Force)

Nervous Gulf allies build arsenals

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Syrian rebels sit July 28, 2012 in a pickup truck in Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press)

Syria’s rebels hold Aleppo neighborhoods

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

Syrian rebels rest in a pickup truck Saturday in Aleppo. “Life in Aleppo has become unbearable. ... There’s shelling night and day, every day,” said a Syrian writer who spoke via telephone on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Iran is Syria’s only remaining ally in the Middle East after 17 months of fighting. (Associated Press)

Rebels pounded, but hold ground in Aleppo

By combined dispatches

Briefly: President picks U.S.-educated prime minister

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

World Briefs: U.S. Navy helicopter crashes with 5 aboard

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

**FILE** Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Saud bin Abdel-Aziz speaks May 12, 2009, with his visitors at his palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Associated Press)

Influential Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Saud dies

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**FILE** Members of a Saudi female soccer team, including captain Rawh Abdullah (left), Rana Al Khateeb (center) and American Mawada Chaballout, practice at a secret location in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Associated Press)

Saudi female athletes fear crackdown after London

By Barbara Surk and Hassan Ammar - Associated Press

** FILE ** Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz (right), who died on Saturday, June 16, 2012, and his brother Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz attend a welcoming ceremony for Gulf Arab leaders as they arrive in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, for a Gulf Cooperation Council summit on Monday, May 14, 2012. Prince Salman has been named crown prince. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Prince Salman, Saudi defense minister, named king’s successor

By Abdullah Al-Shihri - Associated Press

Relatives from the Saudi royal family carry the shrouded body of Crown Prince Nayef Abdul-Aziz inside the Grand Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Mecca on Sunday. The aged king of Saudi Arabia led a burial ceremony Sunday for his brother before his internment following evening prayers. (Associated Press)

Saudi king in Mecca for crown prince’s burial

By Abdullah al-Shihri - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004 file photo, Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz speaks during the GCC Interior Ministers meeting in Kuwait. The Saudi royal family said Saturday, June 16, 2012 that Crown Prince Nayef has died. He was in his late 70s. Nayef was the hard-line interior minister who spearheaded Saudi Arabia's fierce crackdown crushing al-Qaida's branch in the country and then rose to become next in line to the throne.(AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari, File)

Saudi Crown Prince Nayef dies

By Abdullah Al-Shihri and Lee Keath - Associated Press

Leaders of OPEC split on amount of crude to produce

By George Jahn - Associated Press

Kuwait court gives 10 years for Twitter ‘insults’

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Kuwait court gives 10 years for Twitter `insults’

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