( AFP )- The US Navy said Saturday it had sent a carrier-led strike group to the Korean peninsula in a show of force against North Korea's "reckless" nuclear weapons program. The move will raise tensions in the region and comes hard on the heels of a US missile strike on Syria that was...

( The New Arab )- Up to 10,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon have been served eviction notices by the Lebanese army, ordering them to leave their informal settlements near an air force base in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon's The Daily Star reported on Saturday.  The refugees affected by...

( The Guardian )- In the quiet streets of Khan Sheikun this week, as people wept for and buried the dead from a sarin attack, they also braced for the sound of warplanes in the skies above them, and the next attack. On Saturday the planes came back, killing a woman and injuring one other...

( The Guardian )- A warship armed with cruise missiles has joined the Russian battlegroup off the coast of Syria as part of Moscow’s response to US cruise missile strikes on the Syrian airbase of Shayrat. Russia’s angry declarations, a world away from hopes of a rapprochement voiced in...