The TV channel of Iraq's former ruling Baath party on Friday released an audio recording purportedly of the elusive Saddam Hussein deputy some officials said had been killed last month. Several officials and leaders of Shiite militia groups had claimed to have killed Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri more...

(The Daily Star)- Lebanese political figures expressed outrage for a second day Thursday at what they felt was a soft sentence handed down to former Information Minister Michel Samaha over transporting explosives, with MP Walid Jumblatt saying it "legalizes terrorism." The military court...

Idlib's Islamist rebels on Wednesday have thwarted the attacks of Syrian regime forces to take back al-Fanar and al-Jameyyat checkpoints, rebel sources say as fierce clashes still underway east of Ariha town and near al-Mastouma camp. Fatah Army in Idlib on Tuesday took control of a strategic...

A senior Israeli military intelligence official warned Wednesday of a heightened threat of conflict on Israel's borders in the next two years as a result of "escalation" in the region. In a briefing to foreign journalists at the defence ministry in Tel Aviv, the official also...