http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/nicons/rsslogo.jpg http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/ http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/ Al-Manar TV Lebanon US State Department announced on Friday that Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to visit the Middle East and Africa later this month. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=93979&cid=18&fromval=1 A US soldier convicted of killing five of his colleagues in Iraq in May 2009 has been sentenced to life behind bars. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=93959&cid=18&fromval=1 US President Barack Obama met Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as they discussed the Syrian crisis. The two leaders said they have “agreed” that President Bashar al-0Assad “needs to” step down. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=93859&cid=18&fromval=1 US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, believes that President Bashar al-Assad is to gain 75% of the Syrian people’s votes if he runs for presidency in the year of 2014. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=93509&cid=18&fromval=1 US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron upped pressure on Moscow during a joint press conference at the White House Monday. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=93339&cid=18&fromval=1 Kerry said on Friday that this week’s congressional hearing about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi did not reveal anything new. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=93059&cid=18&fromval=1 US Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, portrayed on Thursday Washington’s policies towards the Middle East developments, and stated that his country was enhancing the military capabilities of its Arab allies to confront Iran http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=92909&cid=18&fromval=1 US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted Thursday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could play no role in a transitional government, on a third day of diplomatic talks seeking to help end the conflict. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=92819&cid=18&fromval=1 President Obama’s nominee to become the next ambassador to Libya vowed Tuesday to keep up the hunt for those responsible for the September 2012 attacks. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=92659&cid=18&fromval=1 The US Senator Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican, predicted Tuesday that the United States will start arming insurgents in Syria in the near future in hopes of ousting President Bashar al-Assad. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=92649&cid=18&fromval=1 Israel was believed to have sent warplanes over Lebanon on Thursday or Friday and fired into Syria without entering its airspace http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=92269&cid=18&fromval=1 U.S. President Barack Obama will announce nominees for commerce secretary and US trade representative on Thursday. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=92109&cid=18&fromval=1 US President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin he was concerned about what he claimed was the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=91919&cid=18&fromval=1 The United States Administration believes that the stockpiles of chemical weapons in Syria are under control of the Syrian regime http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=91599&cid=18&fromval=1 U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday that Syria’s use of chemical weapons would be a "game changer." http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=91589&cid=18&fromval=1 US President Barack Obama and the Emir of Qatar Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani have agreed on coordinating in the next months to offer more support for the Syrian opposition. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=91419&cid=18&fromval=1 Hackers broke Twitter accounts of The Associated Press news agency on Tuseday, falsely reporting that US President Barack Obama was hurt in a blast that targeted the White House. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=91199&cid=18&fromval=1 The U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Monday the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was charged by federal prosecutors, seven days after the bombings killed three people and injured over 200. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=91159&cid=18&fromval=1 US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters on Sunday that “a major US arms deal with Israel sends a very clear signal to Tehran that military action remains an option to stop it from going nuclear.” http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=90909&cid=18&fromval=1 Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remained in serious condition in hospital on Saturday unable to answer questions on the devastating attack, officials said. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=90899&cid=18&fromval=1 A US man allegedly planning to engage in terrorism in Syria was arrested at a Chicago airport after months of surveillance, the FBI said Saturday. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=90889&cid=18&fromval=1 US police on Friday captured a Chechen teenager suspected of staging the Boston Marathon bombings, after a desperate manhunt that virtually paralyzed the city and its suburbs. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=90839&cid=18&fromval=1 US officials revised the toll of the powerful blast that destroyed a fertilizer factory to at least 12 killed and 60 missing. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=90789&cid=18&fromval=1 US police said it killed one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects in a shootout early Friday and pursued a chaotic street-to-street manhunt for the second. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=90689&cid=18&fromval=1 An explosion at a fertilizer plant outside Waco at US’ Texas killed some 60 to 70 people and injured hundreds others. http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=90529&cid=18&fromval=1