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DAMASCUS - An explosion ripped through a busy intersection in the Syrian capital on Friday, hitting a police bus and killing at least 11 people and possibly many more in an attack that left pools of blood in the streets and marked the second deadly attack in the capital in as many weeks, Syrian authorities said.

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BERLIN - Syrian anti-regime protestors want to preserve state institutions to avoid repeating the mistakes made in Iraq, opposition leader Burhan Ghaliun said in an interview published on Sunday.

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Yemen’s government signed a ceasefire with a dissident general on Tuesday to try to end weeks of escalating bloodshed

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JERUSALEM — Israel’s foreign minister charged Monday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is an “obstacle” to peace and that he hopes Abbas will soon resign.

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DUBAI — The famine in five regions of southern Somalia could spread to the entire area if relief supplies do not reach the starving population on time. The next four to six weeks could be crucial, according to a senior UN official, who said the humanitarian effort should be stepped up before it is too late.

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JERUSALEM — Ceremoniously announced last month, reconciliation between the two rival Palestinian leaderships — the secular Fatah and the Islamist Hamas — hit a serious snag Sunday, another sign that the effort is not going well.

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SANAA — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was wounded on Friday when shells hit a mosque in the presidential compound killing four guards, has ruled through more than three decades of Middle East turmoil.

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SANAA - Six Yemeni soldiers were killed in a tribal revenge attack on Saturday in the southeastern province of Al-Baida, a tribal leader and a security official said.

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The afternoon air bears an eerie chill accompanied by a fear of the unknown on Tunisia’s border with Libya. The flood of refugees from last week has now fallen to a trickle.

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