A local Islamic State leader was killed on Saturday during a dawn raid by the Lebanese army in which troops arrested 10 suspected militants who had entered a northeastern border town from Syria, the army said. No soldiers were reported wounded or killed in the operation in Arsal, which...

( Middle East Eye )- At the recent Syria conference which drew world leaders to Brussels to discuss how to support the refugees in the country, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri – on his first official European tour during his third stint as prime minister - discussed how they had negatively...

(Zaman Al Wasl) “Why are you holding us accountable for killing civilians in Syria, and you are killing them in Mosul? We will do the same as you,” said the regime Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem to a low-ranking US official. The bluntness of al-Moallem’s comment is not strange as he...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited Israel Friday for talks expected to focus on Iran, Syria and the two countries' close strategic relations despite recent tensions with Barack Obama's administration. Mattis held talks with Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman Friday morning, to be...