Month: March 2017

Marines arrive in Syria in support of fight for Raqqa, defense official says By Lucas Tomlinson Published March 08, 2017 FoxNews.com Facebook Twitter livefyre Email Print Now PlayingUS Marines on the ground in Syria Never autoplay videos A detachment of U.S Marines arrived in Syria […]

General Security agents carried out raids Wednesday against currency exchange offices and money transfer companies on suspicion they sent huge sums to the Islamic State group, a judicial source told AFP. The source said the raids started Tuesday and were continuing on Wednesday against several […]

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Cabinet named Wednesday a new army commander, ending a two-year political deadlock over the appointment of the country’s top security and military officials. The Cabinet promoted Brigadier General Joseph Aoun to Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, replacing General Jean Kahwaji, who has […]

Twelve Syrian nationals have been arrested on Wednesday in the northern area of Zgharta for illegal entry into Lebanon, the State-run National News Agency reported. Lebanese army patrol staged raids against encampments of Syrian refugees in the Zgharta town of Mezyara, and arrested 12 Syrians […]

JERUSALEM —  A law to muffle mosques’ amplified calls to prayer in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem won preliminary approval on Wednesday in a charged parliamentary session where Arab legislators denounced the measure as racist. Supporters of the bill say it is aimed at improving […]

How would the American Health Care Act affect cost and access? March 7, 2017 at 6:40 PM EST The House bill that Republicans plan to pass to replace the Affordable Care Act keeps some of the most popular provisions of the law, but it does […]

The cabinet convened in a regular meeting on Wednesday at the Presidential Palace and approved a list of security, military and judicial appointments, including the appointment of General Joseph Aoun as army commander. President Michel Aoun chaired the meeting in the presence of PM Saad […]

1 Participants dance during an International Women’s Day rally in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, March 8, 2017. 2 Women wear purple ribbons on their faces during the “Todas en Silencio” demonstration to mark the U.N.-designated International Women’s Day, in front of La […]

The Manbij Military Council has handed control of several areas west of the city of Manbij to the Syrian Army, as part of a Moscow-brokered deal to create a buffer zone between Kurds and the Turkish army. Geopolitics analyst Gevorg Mirzayan explains why the deal […]