The Daily Star (Lebanon)

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 07:25
Media reports said the minister, from MP Walid Jumblatt’s parliamentary bloc, carried with him good news that Saudi Arabia did not object to Hezbollah’s participation in the new government.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 11:29
At least 12 people were killed in violence across Iraq on Tuesday, mostly in bombings and shootings in Baghdad, police and medical sources said.
Monday, January 13, 2014 - 12:22
“The phenomena of terrorism, extremist and takfiris affect the entire region and this joint challenge can only be confronted via joint efforts,” Zarif said
Monday, January 13, 2014 - 12:18
A security official in Yemen says heavily armed al-Qaida militants laid a siege to a coast guard camp in a southern town, shelling its barrack and killing four coast guard members.
Monday, January 13, 2014 - 12:16
A group linked to al Qaeda recaptured much of its stronghold in the northeast Syrian city of Raqqa on Sunday, activists said, dealing a blow to rival rebel groups backed by Gulf Arab and Western states.
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 14:34
U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon voiced concern Friday over the escalation of violence in Lebanon, saying the lack of a functioning government has created a political vacuum that has paralyzed the decision-making process.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 08:34
The minister also sent a compact disc containing the coordinates and bugging devices planted by the Jewish state on the Lebanese-Israeli border.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 07:27
The fighting first broke out on Monday when Shiite Huthi rebels attempted to take over the towns of Wadi Khaywan and Usaimat, strongholds of the Hashid tribe in Amran province, they said.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:49
Gunmen shot dead an army colonel and a car bomb injured a senior intelligence officer in Yemen's main port city of Aden on Tuesday, a security official said.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 09:36
But the trial is believed to be the latest in a series of prosecutions begun in July 2011 for alleged offences committed during the peak of Al-Qaeda violence in the kingdom between 2003 and 2006.

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