( The Guardian )- The Manchester Arena bomber, Salman Abedi, had close connections with criminal gangs as well as known and suspected terrorists in the city, it has emerged. Abedi, 22, associated with a gang that has for years waged war with a rival grouping in south Manchester, the...

 Myanmar's top Buddhist body has banned hardline group Ma Ba Tha, according to a document sent out on Tuesday, a move aimed at curbing the movement's influence amid rising Islamophobia. Myanmar has been gripped by deepening religious tensions that have repeatedly spilled into violence,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local workers in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh raised a banner threatening Syrian refugees to not work in the Hezbollah-held city. ''O Syrian , the hand that extends to our livelihood will be cut off." More than 1.2 mn Syrian refugees live in Lebanon under severe...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees in Lebanese town of Arsal went to streets on Friday calling for the release of their relatives in the Lebanese prisons as hunger strike enters the fifth day in the notorious Roumieh prison. The Syrian refugees have joined a public Lebanese demand of...