The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:44
Five rockets were fired at the main transit point for Syria's chemical weapons this month, with one landing near to where experts overseeing the destruction of the toxic stockpile were staying, sources said on Tuesday.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:43
Algeria's state news agency says one of the militants killed last week in the mountainous region east of the capital was a high ranking member of al-Qaida's North Africa branch.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:42
Yemen state TV is reporting that the country's president has named a new commander to head the U.S.-trained special forces leading the fight against al-Qaida-linked militants.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:19
Like Ford, Rubinstein speaks fluent Arabic and has served in numerous positions at embassies around the Mideast, including in Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia and Syria.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:15
Four rockets launched from Syria Monday hit several areas of northeast Lebanon, wounding one person and causing material damage, the Lebanese Army said.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:13
Egypt's crackdown on Islamists has jailed 16,000 people over the past eight months in the country's biggest round-up in nearly two decades, according to previously unreleased figures from security officials.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:12
Algeria's Interior Ministry says it killed seven militants attempting to sneak into the country in a four-wheel drive vehicle from Tunisia near the city of Tebessa.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:11
The influx detected in the last few months is worrying for Yemen, a turbulent country where several hundred Saudi militants are already thought to be fighting alongside their Yemeni counterparts in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 08:20
The Israeli army fired a number of shells into Kfar Shouba Hills Friday in retaliation for a bomb that had targeted an Israeli unit near the border with Lebanon, security sources told The Daily Star.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 08:19
Saudi Arabia demanded that Qatar shut down Al-Jazeera and two think tanks during a recent meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a source close to someone who attended the talks told AFP Friday.