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Lebanese security uses UNHCR as cover in arrest campaign

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees in Lebanon have called on the UN refugee agency to protect them from the abuses of Lebanese security that uses the identity of UNHCR employees to delude refugees in its latest arrest campaign. Number of Syrian refugees told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday...

Fighting moves closer to center of Yemen's main port city

Yemen's Houthis deployed additional forces in the main port city of Hudaida Sunday as an Arab-led military coalition moved closer to the city center in the largest offensive of the war, raising U.N. fears of a humanitarian catastrophe. The alliance launched its assault on the heavily...

Pakistani Taliban names Noor Wali its new chief

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the mother organization of Pakistani militants, on Saturday announced Mufti Noor Wali Mahsud as the group’s new head. The announcement came 10 days after then-TTP head Mullah Fazlullah was killed along with four other militants in a U.S. drone strike...

U.N. chief appeals for end to fighting in Daraa

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Friday called for an immediate end to a military escalation in southwest Syria and a return to ceasefire arrangements agreed by Russia, the United States and Jordan. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley separately urged Russia to pressure its Syrian ally...