(The Daily Star)- A suicide driver detonated a car packed with explosives at a security check-point south of Baghdad Monday, killing ten people and wounding 25, police and medical sources said. The blast happened as a convoy of Shi'ite paramilitary fighters drove past the check-point in...

(The Daily Star)- Iran has rejected remarks by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that its policies in Syria and Yemen are blocking efforts to encourage banks to do business with it. In an interview published Friday, Kerry told Foreign Affairs magazine that Iranian support for Syrian...

(Now)- A high-ranking Hezbollah commander has been killed in Aleppo, the latest casualty suffered by the Lebanese party fighting on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.   A pro-Hezbollah outlet which publicizes funerals of the party's fighters killed "in confrontation with the...

Britain and France sought to persuade the European Union on Monday to condemn Russia's devastating air campaign in Syria and pave the way for imposing more sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad's government. After a weekend of U.S.-led diplomacy that failed to find a breakthrough, EU...