(The Daily Star)- Lebanon's army said Monday it has referred a terror suspect to the judiciary for smuggling people and weapons. In a statement, the army accused Syrian national Ali Hussein al-Hasan of links to ISIS, saying he smuggled weapons and people on behalf of the group in Syria....

The European Union extended its sanctions on Syria on Monday, putting 17 government ministers and the country's central bank chief under travel bans and asset freezes as part of its strategy to punish President Bashar Assad. "This decision brings to 234 the total number of persons subject to...

Yemen is at risk of a significant cholera outbreak with the number of suspected cases doubling within 12 days to over 4,000, the World Health Organization said. The outbreak in a country ravaged by a 20-month war that has killed thousands was declared by Yemen's Health Ministry on Oct. 6. By...

(The Daily Star)- Airstrikes destroyed the only hospital in the rebel-held town of Atareb in the countryside west of Aleppo Monday, wounding several members of the medical staff, war activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war activist group, said warplanes...

Islamic State is using wooden replicas of tanks and Humvees in a bid to subvert an air campaign by the U.S.-led military coalition supporting Iraqi forces in the Mosul operations, even using bearded mannequins to simulate jihadist fighters. The Iraqi army captured a handful of the mockups...

Reporting by Elias Mohamed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrians came to Yemen from Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Hama and other cities hoping to find safe refuge far from the brutality of the Assad regime. As many of them said, they came with nothing but their Arab and Levantine identity. Yemen was a favored...

Two Egyptian troops were killed and ten others injured in a spate of militant attacks in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, according to a local security source. A military vehicle struck a roadside bomb in North Sinai’s city of Sheikh Zuweid, killing a soldier and injuring an army...

President-elect Donald Trump is seeking quick ways to withdraw the United States from a global accord to combat climate change, a source on his transition team said, defying broad global backing for the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Since Trump's election victory Tuesday, governments...

(The Daily Star)- Tunisian forces captured three large arms caches near the border with Libya over the weekend, including Kalashnikov rifles, rockets and landmines, the interior ministry said. The caches in the border city of Ben Guerdane will stoke Tunisia's concerns about the threat of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Homsi family were killed Sunday by a directed missile sent from Russian warplane, targeted the electricity corporation between Khan al-Asal and Kafer Naha in the countryside of Aleppo. A well informed source reported that the family was of Zedan Talib, the Homsi Islamic...

(The Guardian)- Seven Pakistani soldiers were killed by Indian shelling across the frontier in the disputed Kashmir region overnight, Pakistani’s military has said. The military media wing, ISPR, said in a statement the seven soldiers were killed in the Bhimber sector on the “Line of...

(Sky News)- Britain’s exit from the European Union could open up increased trade for the nation’s ports and create tens of thousands of jobs, according to a new report. The research, by the Centre for Policy Studies and MP Rishi Sunak, argues that EU law has held back the potential of UK sea...

(The Daily Star)- Samsung Electronics said Monday it would buy U.S. auto parts maker Harman International Industries for $8 billion in a bid to enter the growing market for automotive technology to produce "connected" cars. Board members of Samsung -- the world's largest producer of...

 A rare suicide attack in an oasis town south of Baghdad killed eight people and wounded at least six Monday, Iraqi officials said. The attack in Ain al-Tamer involved six suicide bombers, some of whom may have been killed by security forces before they could blow themselves up....

Tehran officials shut schools Monday as the first of the winter season's heavy pollution hit the Iranian capital. A blanket of choking brown-white smog descended on the city Sunday, blocking out the view of the mountains that line its northern edge and leading many of its 14 million...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived Monday in Muscat, Omani state media said, for talks expected to focus on efforts to end Yemen's 19-month conflict. ONA news agency said Kerry will be in the Gulf sultanate for two days, in one of his last trips as secretary of state before President...

 Turkish warplanes struck 15 targets in the al Bab area of northern Syria on Sunday in an operation with Syrian rebels to drive Islamic State (IS) militants out of the border region, the Turkish military said on Monday. President Tayyip Erdogan has said seizing control of al Bab, around...

 Iraqi soldiers recaptured the town of Nimrud on Sunday and the nearby ruins of the 3,000-year-old Assyrian city which was overrun and bulldozed two years ago by Islamic State militants. Nimrud, once the capital of an empire stretching across the ancient Middle East, is one of several...

Violence between a persecuted Muslim population and Myanmar security forces escalated over the weekend as two soldiers were killed by crudely armed attackers, according to government officials and Muslim residents. In retaliation, troops of the Buddhist-majority government burned villages deep...

An Israeli committee on Sunday approved a bill that if adopted would legalize outposts built without government permission in the West Bank, territory Palestinians demand for their future state. It still needs to pass several stages before it can be adopted. A first reading is expected in...