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KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says a bombing in the northern Kunduz province has killed 22 members of illegal armed groups, including four leaders. Abdul Wadood Wahidi, spokesman for the provincial governor, said the bombing late Saturday targeted a meeting of criminal groups that in the past have clashed …

BEIRUT – Syrian authorities have arrested a relative of President Bashar Assad on suspicion of shooting a senior army officer in a traffic dispute, setting off rare protests in a coastal stronghold of the Assad family. Latakia’s Gov. Khodr al-Salem says in comments published late Monday by state-run news agency …

Since Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860, the new two party system has gone through 3 distinct presidential phases, Republicans dominated in the first and third, Democrats in the 2nd. We may now be in the fourth, another Democratic era. The president’s State of the Union address last night suggests he …