(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 Syrian refugees were killed and 400 more were arrested when the Lebanese army raided two refugee camps in the Arsal area at the border with Syria on Friday, local reporter said. The raids were part of a major security sweep by the army in an area that has...

Iraqi soldiers snap victorious "selfies" and pose with a captured Islamic State group flag at the Mosul mosque where militant chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi once spoke. "Where is Baghdadi?" they say, taunting the absent militant leader at the site of his triumphal 2014 appearance, the only time...

Israel's military says aircraft struck a Syrian military post that earlier fired a mortar into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights. It said the Syrian shell caused no injuries Friday, the latest in several such incidents of this week. The fire was spillover from battles in the...

The US Treasury Department on Thursday slapped sanctions on a Chinese bank over illicit activities in North Korea, including facilitating the production of weapons of mass destruction. Bank of Dandong which "acts as a conduit for illicit North Korean financial activity, is a foreign bank of...