An Emirati court has jailed five Qatari intelligence officers for insulting the leadership of the United Arab Emirates, local media said Tuesday. The State Security court sentenced Ali al-Hammadi, who is the only defendant in custody, to 10 years in jail, and fined him one million dirhams...

Jordan Tuesday rejected Syrian accusations that "terrorists" were being given military training on its soil, insisting Amman favored a political solution to its neighbor's conflict. The Syrian foreign ministry, in a protest letter sent to the United Nations Monday, alleged Jordan "provides...

The Lebanese Army pounded jihadi hideouts on the outskirts of Arsal Tuesday, as fresh clashes erupted in the area between ISIS and Al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front. A security source told The Daily Star that Army units located in the northeast region of Wadi Rafeq shelled jihadi positions deep in the...

Syrian Islamist rebels on Tuesday have seized full control of regime’s powerful stronghold of of al-Mastouma camp in Idlib province, for the first time since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011, activists said. The alliance of Islamist groups, including the Nusra Front, who seized...