(The Daily Star)- A mild earthquake hit the Bekaa Valley in east Lebanon at dawn Friday, the state-run National News Agency reported.

(Amnesty)- A former detainee holds up a label from one of the items provided to refugees held in the partly EU-funded Erzurum Deportation Centre in eastern Turkey The European Union (EU) is in danger of being complicit in serious human rights violations against refugees and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition hosted by Saudi Arabia elected former Prime Minister Riad Hijab as a coordinator of a body that is expected to lead future peace talks, Reuters  said on Thursday. Hijab, who defected from Syrian President Bashar al Assad's government in...

Washington is considering how to respond to an Iranian ballistic missile launch that violated U.N. Security Council resolutions, senior U.S. officials said on Thursday, as senators pressed for a strong reaction. "We are now actively considering the appropriate consequences to that...