(Reuters) - With Lebanon's most powerful political parties funded and often directed by regional powers, the country has for decades been affected by events in the Middle East. But extraordinary chaos is exploding around the tiny Mediterranean state and Lebanon's leaders...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed   (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic state of Iraq and Syria said al-Nusra Front and other Islamist groups are apostate groups, rejecting a proposed truce by foreign jihadist to halt...

  The U.N.’s “action plan” to call a temporary halt to the violence in Syria will only work to strengthen the Assad regime, an opposition leader said on Friday to Anadolu Agency. In an exclusive interview with the Turkish news agency,   the defense minister of the...

(Reuters) - British nationals who become foreign fighters abroad could be prevented from returning home under tough new laws to deal with jihadists fighting in conflicts like Iraq and Syria , British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday. A new counter-terrorism bill...