The TV channel of Iraq's former ruling Baath party on Friday released an audio recording purportedly of the elusive Saddam Hussein deputy some officials said had been killed last month. Several officials and leaders of Shiite militia groups had claimed to have killed Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri more...

(The Daily Star)- Lebanese political figures expressed outrage for a second day Thursday at what they felt was a soft sentence handed down to former Information Minister Michel Samaha over transporting explosives, with MP Walid Jumblatt saying it "legalizes terrorism." The military court...

(NOW)- Syrian rebels have attacked Hezbollah on a new front in the ongoing Qalamoun battles amid advances by the Shiite party as it gears up for a “decisive” battle to seize a strategic mountain redoubt. “Fierce clashes raged between Hezbollah supported by regime troops...

A senior Israeli military intelligence official warned Wednesday of a heightened threat of conflict on Israel's borders in the next two years as a result of "escalation" in the region. In a briefing to foreign journalists at the defence ministry in Tel Aviv, the official also...