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BEIRUT // Lebanon’s economy has long depended on the Arab Gulf states. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese work there, sending their savings home to relatives. It is the main destination for exports — both human capital and produced goods — as well as the leading […]

A discrepancy in statistics provided by the Department of Homeland Security has led an attorney for a Washington-based legal group to question whether administration officials are waiving Syrians into the United States by other means. Ian Smith, of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, obtained the […]

The US State Department has issued a travel warning, urging citizens to avoid visiting Iran, asserting that the nation has made abducting Americans a priority, and that the US would be limited in how they can assist, in the event of an emergency. An Iranian […]

The Israeli military have launched strikes against two Hamas positions in the north of the Gaza Strip, the IDF reported on Twitter, saying the operation was a response to an earlier rocket attack from Gaza. On Sunday afternoon, both the Israeli Air Force and armored […]

The US State Department has urged Americans in the Gaza Strip to leave the area “as soon as possible.” The announcement follows an escalation between Palestinian militants and the Israeli military over the weekend. “Gaza is under the control of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization. […]

Four of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vessels “harassed” a U.S. warship on Tuesday near the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. defense official said, amid Washington’s concerns about Iran’s posture in the Gulf and in the Syrian civil war. The official, speaking on the […]

A psychology student from the southern U.S. state of Mississippi who tried to travel to Syria with his fiancee to join Islamic State has been sentenced to eight years in prison on federal terrorism charges. Muhammad Dakhlalla, 22, could have faced up to 20 years […]

The war in Syria has become even more complex. Turkey launched a military intervention in Syria on Wednesday, sending tanks across the border and launching air strikes. Turkish-backed rebels reportedly captured the town of Jarablus, in northern Syria, from ISIS. U.S.-backed Kurdish rebels, however, had […]

In the northern Syrian province of Hama, Syrian Armed Forces and its allied forces started a sudden military army operation against al-Nusra Front militants. The decision to storm the terrorists was taken by the command of the Armed Forces after successive attacks by al-Nusra Front […]