(The Daily Star)- The Lebanese Army said Wednesday that four Syrian nationals who had arrested for their alleged links to militant groups were referred to the judiciary. An army statement said Abdallah Muhammad Zakariya, Abdel Halim Abdel Hakim Bakkar, Ahmad Abdel Hamid Shehadeh and Muhammad...

Reporting by Abdul Hafiz al-Holani (Zaman al-Wasl) “The evil of a country where one has no friend, and evil is a human gaining what deafens” with this famous line of poetry for his beloved al-Mutanabbi, the refugee Mohammad Ismail Rahma begins explaining how he feels now as he prepares his...

The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey border, turned out to be overwhelmingly ignorant. The extremist group could hardly have hoped for better....

Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed (Eqtsad)- Some might classify the trade in Syrian pound in southern cities of Turkey as small trade and that might be a correct classification when looking at who has the keys of this trade; however, this classification seems to be inaccurate when looking at the...