Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour stressed on Wednesday that Hizbullah's interference in Syria is not the problem, pointing out that the region's upheaval is cause by the presence of terrorist ideologies. "Those claiming that what is happening in Syria is a...
A deadly rocket attack targeted the eastern Beqaa town of Arsal on Friday morning, killing at least seven people “Seven people have been killed and 15 others injured in the rocket attack on Arsal,” Lebanon’s state National News Agency reported. The news...
The trial in absentia of four Hezbollah members accused of murdering former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri in 2005 opens at a UN-backed court on Thursday, with sectarian violence an undiminished threat at home. Nine years after the huge Beirut car bombing killed billionaire...
Lebanon: A suspected suicide car bombing killed at least four people and wounded 42 others in a bustling neighborhood in the northeastern town of Hermel Thursday, a security source told The Daily Star. The blast occurred during the morning rush hour near the town’s...
A series of bomb attacks on Wednesday targeted areas within the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba killing at least 52 people and injuring dozens more, police and hospital sources said, according to Agence France-Presse. In...
After crushing the Muslim Brotherhood at home, Egypt's military rulers plan to undermine the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which runs the neighboring Gaza Strip, senior Egyptian security officials told Reuters. The aim, which the officials say could take years to pull off,...
A Lebanese group loyal to al-Qaeda vowed Tuesday to keep up its attacks against Iran, Hezbollah and Israel, less than a fortnight after the death of its leader, Majid al-Majid. The Saudi-born Majid, which claimed responsibility for a November attack on the Iranian...
The country is preparing to adopt a new constitution, but its economy remains weak and its political situation unstable. On Thursday, Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh of the Islamist Ennahda party announced his resignation, following through on a compromise negotiated by the ruling...
FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo must continue to maintain his exceptional high standards in order to be classed among the sport's legends, according to Brazil great Pele who compared the Portuguese to Eusebio. Portugal and Real Madrid forward Ronaldo beat...
In the wake of the military seizure of power in Egypt last July, US secretary of state John Kerry praised the coup leader General Sisi for "restoring democracy". Last November, in a sign of approval for the new regime, Kerry visited Cairo where he said that Sisi’s "road map" to...
A car bomb exploded outside a bus terminal in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding 16, police and medics said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack at the Allawi al-Hillah bus terminal but Sunni Islamist insurgents have been gaining...
Egypt's army chief has indicated that he may run for president in elections slated for later this year, according to state media. General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who led a military coup last July to depose the country's first democratically-elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, said on Saturday...
The wife of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail gave birth on Friday to a boy born from sperm smuggled into Gaza, her family said, the first successful pregnancy of its kind in the embattled coastal enclave. The procedure follows several similar cases last year in...
Iraqis fleeing from Falluja question whether the masked gunmen who overran their city 10 days ago are really al Qaeda-linked militants as the government says, but fear their presence will draw a ferocious response from the army regardless. At a motel in Iraq's Kurdish north, Falluja...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will both attend the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos this month, the organisers told Reuters on Friday. Asked about their attendance, a spokeswoman for the forum said: "Yes, it's...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday that nuclear negotiations with world powers had revealed U.S. enmity towards the Islamic state. Khamenei was speaking hours before the resumption of talks between Iran and the European Union in Geneva. "We had announced...
Tunisia's Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh resigned on Thursday to make way for a caretaker government as part of a deal with his opponents to finish a transitional period. “I have just handed my resignation to the president,” Larayedh told reporters, in statements...
Gunmen threw a bomb at a police vehicle in central Cairo on Tuesday, security sources said. The police car was also raked with gunfire with no details of casualties immediately available, Reuters reported, quoting security sources.
A 10-year-old Afghan girl was forced by her brother to wear a vest packed with explosives and blow herself up at a police building, but the attempted suicide attack failed when the girl ended up in police custody, Al Arabiya correspondent reported on Tuesday....
A Yemeni intelligence officer was seriously wounded when his car exploded on Tuesday in the main southern city of Aden, a security official told AFP. The attack is the second in a week against an intelligence officer in Aden after suspected al-Qaeda gunmen killed...
