BEIRUT (The Daily Star)- The Nusra Front Monday issued a new threat against the captive soldiers and policemen being held on Lebanon’s northeastern border after police raided a notorious prison packed with Islamists earlier in the day. In response, the families of the captives...

More than 27 Syrian people have frozen to death since 2011 March during Syria’s ongoing civil war, a Syrian human rights group said Sunday. According to pro-opposition Syrian Network for Human Rights, at least 27 people, including 16 children and three women have lost...

BEIRUT - Lebanon’s interior minister Sunday denounced the “monstrous” twin suicide attack that targeted a Tripoli cafe the day before, while the justice minister vowed to punish those behind the bombings that killed nine and wounded more than 30. Saturday's attack on the...

   At 11 p.m. on Sept. 5, 2007, 10 F-15 fighter bombers climbed into the sky from the Israeli military base Ramat David, just south of Haifa. They headed for the Mediterranean Sea, officially for a training mission. A half hour later, three of the planes were ordered to return to...