The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 07:19
The Syrian army Tuesday seized one of the last remaining rebel-held villages in the Qalamoun region, Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television reported, adding that regime forces expanded their military operations in the central city of Old Homs.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 07:18
Hassan al-Shimmari said Tuesday that 2,400 inmates have been transferred from Abu Ghraib to other prisons in safer areas of the country. He says it was a precautionary measure because the Abu Ghraib facility is located in "a restive area."
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 07:17
"A child was killed and 41 others, most of them children, were injured by mortar rounds fired by terrorists at schools in Bab Touma and Al-Duwaila in Damascus," the official SANA news agency reported.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 07:16
The Navy and Army officials, with the participation of the U. S. Embassy received the grant at a ceremony held at Beirut Port.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 07:12
"The trench is designed to prevent the infiltration of members of terrorist groups and stop smugglers," Halkurd Mullah Ali, the spokesman for the Kurdish region's peshmerga security ministry, told AFP.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 07:11
Machnouk said Syrian refugees registered in Lebanon make up 27 percent of the country's population, while in Jordan they make up 10% percent of the population and in Turkey they make up 4 percent.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:48
Among the 38 suspects were 18 from the mainly Alawite Tripoli neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen and 20 from nearby predominantly Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh, according to a judicial source.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:45
Unidentified gunmen in Yemen shot dead a Saudi Arabian border guard and wounded another in the early hours of Monday morning, Saudi news websites reported, in what would be the second such incident in five days.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:43
Algeria's Defense Ministry says six armed militants were killed in weekend operations in the center and far east of the country.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:43
Officials say Hezbollah has turned to a variety of new tactics - including complicated commando operations - to hunt down rebels and opposition commanders.