(Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande reassured Muslims on Thursday that his country respected them and their religion but said  France  would not compromise on its commitment to freedom and democracy. Speaking a week after Islamist militant violence that killed...

(Reuters) - Belgian police killed two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids on Thursday against an Islamist group that federal prosecutors said was about to launch "terrorist attacks on a grand scale". Coming a week after Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in...

(Reuters) - A 12-year-old boy was shot dead in Cizre in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, the sixth person to be killed in the largely Kurdish town in the last three weeks, security sources said. Local witnesses said police teams were traveling through the area at the time he was...

BEIRUT (The Daily Star)-  Lebanon’s cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Tammam Salam got underway Thursday with a regular agenda, but Hezbollah's ministers were expected to raise the issue of entry permits for Syrians from outside the schedule, ministerial sources told...