(The New Arab)- US and Kuwaiti authorities assisted Philippine security services in arresting a Middle Eastern couple with suspected links to the Islamic State group, officials said Friday. The couple are suspected to have been planning bomb attacks in Kuwait and possibly the Philippines....

( AFP )- China Friday warned against "further deterioration" of the situation in Syria, just hours after a U.S. airstrike on a Syrian airbase in response to a suspected chemical attack. The warning came as Xi Jinping met with U.S. President Donald Trump at his Florida resort in Mar-a-Lago,...

( Reuters )- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday he hoped U.S. missile strikes on Syria would not irreparably damage relations between Moscow and Washington. "This is an act of aggression, on an absolutely made-up pretext," Lavrov told a news conference in Tashkent,...

( Reuters )- Oil prices held near one-month highs on Friday after the United States attacked a Syrian air base but stocks and the dollar recovered early falls when a U.S. official played down the risks of an escalation. The U.S. dollar recouped all of its losses against a basket of major...