Lebanon's army on Wednesday arrested a senior al Qaeda-linked militant described by security sources as a "mastermind of car bombs" that have targeted several Shi'ite areas in recent months. Security sources said the arrest of Naim Abbas could help uncover radical jihadi cells in...
Russia said on Wednesday it would veto a U.N. resolution on humanitarian aid access in Syria in its current form, denouncing the draft as an effort to lay a foundation for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's government. Moscow had already dismissed the...
An opposition source told Zaman Alwasl that the head of National Coalition will attend the Arab summit to be held in next March in Kuwait. Secretary-General of the Arab League Nabil al-Arabi has invited Mr. Ahmad Assi Al-Jarba during the last meeting between them...
The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday began debating a Western-Arab draft resolution that would demand humanitarian aid access to besieged areas in conflict-torn Syria, a text Russia has dismissed as "detached from reality." The text was prepared by Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan,...
