Syria

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press Updated: 9:57 a.m. on Friday, May 25, 2012 BEIRUT - A group of Lebanese Shiites who were kidnapped in Syria were released in good health Friday, three days after Syrian rebels abducted the men as they returned from a religious pilgrimage, officials said. The kidnappings fueled fears that Lebanon is getting drawn into the bloody conflict in neighboring Syria.

May 26, 2012 An image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows an anti-regime demonstration in the Daraa province Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets on Friday as more than 30 people were reportedly killed across Syria, while security forces deployed tanks and helicopter gunships against rebels. The latest violence came as Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria

Mohammed Ghobari , Isabel Coles Friday 25 May 2012 A suicide bomber drove into a school in northern Yemen's al-Jawf province where members of a Shi'ite Muslim rebel group had gathered for Friday prayers and killed 12 people, the defence ministry said. A local official said several people were wounded in the attack.

French writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy walks in a Paris street in 2011. Levy will stride the red carpet at Cannes with four Libyan rebels for the premiere of his documentary on the Libyan war, "The Oath of Tobruk". Libyan rebels take position during fighting against regime forces at the Gadayem forest, west of Tripoli in 2011.

0 Lebanese hostages kidnapped in Syria will be set free "within hours", an Islamist cleric who is brokering their release said on Friday. "The process is in its final stages, they will be released within hours God willing," Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zoaby told Reuters. A dozen Lebanese Shi'ite men were among a group of pilgrims returning to Lebanon from Iran when gunmen stopped their bus after it crossed into Syria from Turkey.