(The Daily Star)- Relatives of nine Lebanese servicemen taken hostage by Daesh (ISIS) have completed DNA tests, local media reported Tuesday. Results of will be compared with unidentified bodies found by the Syrian army in an area liberated form Daesh control, said a source quoted by the...

 Nearly 2.2 million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished, victims of the near-collapse of the health care system during two years of escalating conflict, UN children's fund UNICEF said on Tuesday. At least 462,000 are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, as food supplies have...

A meeting of a Turkish group in the U.K. parliament, hosted by a British lawmaker, was disrupted by PKK sympathizers on Monday night. During an event on British-Turkish relations organized by the U.K. branch of the Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD), a group which had posed as...

The Turkish army has dropped leaflets on the Islamic State-held city of al-Bab in Syria urging civilians to seek shelter, as rebels backed by Turkish tanks and warplanes close in on the city. The leaflets, dropped on the last urban stronghold of Islamic State in the northern Aleppo...