(The Daily Star)- Vietnamese police hunted Monday for hundreds of drug addicts who escaped from a compulsory rehabilitation center, with some using sticks and fire extinguishers to break out. The communist government decrees up to two years of forced rehabilitation at government centers to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish bulldozers resume Sunday dredging agricultural fields of Syrian farmers at the village of Aqrabat near Bab al-Hawa crossing point, although farmers are meeting the Wali of Hatay State Monday, to provide him with the real estate map to show the ownership of lands those...

Kurdish fighters said they had taken the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from Islamic State on Sunday as coalition forces pressed their offensive against the jihadists' last stronghold in Iraq. An American official said Masoud Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdish region, had told U.S. Defense...

A cartoon which appeared on social media shows a drowning Egyptian, only his hand protruding from the depths, waving for help. The next strips show President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi diving in, taking the drowning man's watch and turning away. The cartoon captures the mood of desperation and...