BEIRUT (The Daily Star): A Lebanese military judge Tuesday charged a former negotiator in Lebanon's hostage crisis with belonging to the Nusra Front, seeking the death penalty against Arsal's Sheikh Mustafa Hujeiri. The charges, filed by Military Investigative Judge Fadi...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes have hit Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus on Tuesday, leaving 7 civilians dead and dozens wounded, a monitoring group said. Bashar al-Assad’s warplanes have conducted airstrikes on Erbin and Ayn Terma towns in the Eastern...

(Reuters) - Lieutenant General Mahdi Gharawi knew an attack was coming. In late May, Iraqi security forces arrested seven members of militant group Islamic State in Mosul and learned the group planned an offensive on the city in early June. Gharawi, the operational commander of...

Commanders from the US-led coalition against Islamic State jihadists will meet in Washington Tuesday to discuss halting the group's advance in Iraq and Syria, as air strikes failed to stop militants from reaching the centre of Kobane. IS fighters claimed nearly half of the...