NEWS
January 5, 1986 | CHARLES P. WALLACE, Times Staff Writer
The Palestinian guerrilla group headed by the elusive Abu Nidal says it will continue to attack Israeli and American interests with suicide commando raids, following what it termed a course of "martyrdom as a goal and a means." A rare communique from the group, the Revolutionary Council of Fatah, was handed to journalists in the Syrian capital by an official of the organization. Abu Nidal is the nom de guerre of the group's leader, Sabri Banna, whose whereabouts are not known.
NEWS
December 22, 1987 | WILLIAM D. MONTALBANO, Times Staff Writer
Saying he could not endure the anguish of the trial, a Palestinian gunman declined to appear Monday before a court trying him for mass murder in the 1985 post-Christmas terrorist attack on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport. Ibrahim Khaled, the sole survivor of the four-man suicide squad whose attack claimed 16 lives and left 80 other people wounded, exercised his right not to appear at the first substantive session of his trial.
WORLD
October 24, 2012 | By Los Angeles Times Staff
BEIRUT - At least 20 people were killed in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday when a bakery was hit by a shell, turning the bread shop into a bloodbath, activists said. More than 50 people were injured in the attack by government forces on the Masaken Hanano neighborhood, they said, with surrounding field hospitals so overwhelmed by the influx of victims that activists sent out a plea for local doctors to come and assist. Only half of the victims could be identified. One gruesome video showed a young girl, in a turquoise shirt, whose head had been blown off. PHOTOS: Living under siege: Life in Aleppo, Syria They were among more than 100 killed across Syria on Tuesday, activists said.
NEWS
June 12, 1987 | From Reuters
The ruling Revolutionary Council in Iraq instituted a new law Thursday centralizing the collection of the Islamic alms tax for distribution to the needy.
WORLD
February 13, 2013 | By Raja Abdulrahim and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT - Syrian rebels brought tanks, mortar launchers and homemade rockets to bear Wednesday in their offensive to seize the international airport in the city of Aleppo and a nearby military airport, a day after making other strategic military gains in the northern region. The opposition fighters, seeking to cut off supply lines to President Bashar Assad's forces guarding the airports, were able to take partial control of railroads in the area, activists said. Taking the international airport would be one of the most significant gains for the rebels in the north and could solidify the opposition's hold on the province of Aleppo.
NEWS
November 1, 1987
Two weeks after seizing power in a coup, Capt. Blaise Compaore appointed himself head of state of the West African nation of Burkina Faso and made sweeping changes in the Cabinet. An official statement said Compaore, 35, also became president of the Popular Front, an umbrella organization set up during the Oct. 15 coup to replace the dissolved National Revolutionary Council.