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US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for not quickly hitting back at Washington for the punitive measures imposed over alleged interference in the November election. “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) – I always knew he was very smart!” […]

Russia is pushing for a UN Security Council vote Saturday to support the ceasefire it helped broker in Syria, where the truce remained largely intact on its second day despite sporadic clashes. Moscow says it wants the United Nations to be involved in peace talks between […]

The Army Intelligence Directorate obtained, after thorough monitoring, some “accurate and credible” information that terror cells are taking action in the northern city of Tripoli according to instructions delivered to them from Islamist fugitive Shadi al-Mawalai, who is taking refuge in the southern Palestinian refugee […]

Western powers have called on the Syrian regime and Hizbullah to “stop their attacks” in the Wadi Barada region near Damascus, a media report said on Sunday. All the ambassadors of the Western powers agreed during a U.N. Security Council vote on Saturday that a […]

Officials in southern Iraq say gunmen wearing suicide vests and driving an explosive-laden vehicle have attacked a police checkpoint, killing seven people. Authorities say at least 15 people were wounded in the attack Sunday near the town of Qadisiyah, 180 kilometers south of Baghdad. All […]

U.S. counterterrorism authorities are growing increasingly concerned about the activities of the student branch of a banned Pakistani militant organization that’s seen as a threat to regional and U.S. interests. The State Department this week announced it was adding the student wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) […]

The new United Nations chief said he wants to meet with Donald Trump even as the U.S. president-elect renewed his call for major changes at the global organization. Incoming U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who assumes his new post on January 1, said on Wednesday that […]

Seven terror suspects were arrested Sunday in the northern district of Zgharta, state-run National News Agency reported. “An army patrol arrested seven Syrians in the Zgharta district town of Iaal on charges of communicating with terrorist groups,” NNA said. A three-member terrorist cell had been […]

Its slogan was “the voice of the voiceless”, but after four decades the prestigious Lebanese daily As-Safir published its final issue Saturday amid a crisis in the country’s print media. A front-page editorial entitled “The nation without As-Safir” said the paper had “become exhausted… but […]