RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced 27 people to prison for planning a series of attacks against U.S. forces in Qatar and Kuwait, with more than half of the defendants charged on Wednesday with also trying to join forces with a group in Syria to smuggle...

BEIRUT ( The Daily Star ): Lebanese Army defector Abdallah Shehadeh in a video released Thursday said Hezbollah’s "manipulation" of the military and its "discrimination" against Sunni personnel were what prompted him to join the Nusra Front. “We enlisted in the Army in order to...

(Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Tripoli on Saturday to urge the warring factions fighting for control of Libya to make peace, in the highest-level visit since an armed faction took the capital in August. Oil producer Libya is struggling with two...

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