David, the author of Psalm 122, exhorted pilgrims coming to the Holy City to “pray for the peace of the city.” Jerusalem’s name itself marks it as the city of peace, but in reality it has known much war and conflict, which continue to this day.
BEIRUT — The commandos infiltrated Syrian rebel-held territory near the Lebanese border, watching rebel fighters come and go from a two-story villa before slipping inside to plant a powerful bomb. The next morning, they detonated it as three rebel explosive experts and four assistants met inside, turning the villa to rubble in seconds.
DOHA, Qatar — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on Saturday for an urgent political resolution to the war in Syria, saying that unless the bloodshed stops, the region could descend into a chaotic sectarian conflict.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As a bulldozer began to clear away the debris of a collapsed building that killed six people, city officials said a search for the dead and injured was nearly complete Thursday and an investigation had already begun to determine how a relatively commonplace demolition job could have gone so wrong.
Arrival of the Modern Mind A sculpture of an adult female bison worked from a large piece of mammoth tusk dates at least 21,000 years old, discovered at Zaraysk, Osetr Valley, Russia, is seen on display in an exhibition ‘Ice Age Art : arrival of the modern mind’ at the British Museum in London, Feb. 5. The exhibition present masterpieces create from the last Ice Age. AP Photo/Sang Tan
