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Anti-ISIS strategy to face scrutiny at Paris meeting

The anti-ISIS coalition will meet in Paris Tuesday after a series of shock battlefield gains by the jihadis, with Iraq under pressure to step up its fight by being more inclusive of the Sunni minority. The main focus of the meeting will be the crisis in Iraq, where ISIS seized the city of Ramadi...

ISIS claims second Saudi attack

A suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up in the parking lot of a Shiite mosque during Friday prayers, killing himself and three others in the second such attack in as many weeks claimed by ISIS. The latest attack and a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque that killed 21 people...

Syrian refugees buckle under health care bills in Lebanon

“Who’s there?” asked Dr. Mohammad Farhat, director of Hamid Farhat Hospital in the Bekaa Valley town of Majdal Anjar. “The sick lady died last night,” said a man on the phone. “Yeah, I know she died, what do you want me to do?” Farhat replied. “They have 90 percent [of...

Libya on verge of economic collapse, U.N. envoy warns

Libya is on the verge of economic collapse as rival factions haggle over a political settlement, the United Nations special envoy said on Thursday. Bernardino Leon, who has been trying for months to broker an agreement on a national unity government for Libya, said the United Nations was...