(Zaman al-Wasl) “What did Smurf tell you… Didn’t Smurf bring you… He ‘smurfed’ him…. On the ‘smurfing’,” are repeated as a reference to the deceased artist Philemon Wehbe a Lebanese artist who played the role of the oblivious person whose life remains untouched by any issue...

Syrian government warplanes carried out several airstrikes and low-level clashes persisted in some areas Sunday, but a Russian and Turkish-backed ceasefire largely held in other areas on its third day, activists and rebels said. Jets bombed the villages of Kafr Kar, Mintar and around...

Police say a lawmaker from Bangladesh's ruling party has been shot dead by masked men in northern Bangladesh. Local police chief Atiar Rahman says Manzurul Islam Liton, a federal legislator from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party, was shot at his home in Gaibandha district...

The Lebanese Army arrested Sunday seven suspects in north Lebanon on terror links, state media reported. An army intelligence patrol detained seven Syrian nationals in Zgharta north of Beirut on charges “of communicating with terrorist groups,” the National News Agency said. No...