Kuwait Sunday identified the suicide bomber behind its worst militant attack as a young Saudi man, and said it had detained the driver of the vehicle that took him to a Shiite mosque where he killed 27 people. The disclosure of the bomber’s Saudi nationality is likely to focus the attention of authorities investigating Friday’s suicide bombing on ties between ...

Arab warplanes continue strikes on Houthis: residents | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR ­ More than 20 airstrikes by Arab forces hit targets controlled by Houthi rebels across Yemen late Sunday, residents said. An Arab military coalition has been bombing the Houthis for three months to restore the country’s exiled government and fend off what they see ...

­ Army forces loyal to Yemen’s exiled president seized a border crossing with Saudi Arabia Tuesday, officials in the area and witnesses said, dealing a rare blow to the country’s dominant Houthi group. The Houthis and their allies in Yemen’s army control three other crossings with the kingdom, which has led an anti-Houthi alliance in a three-month bombing campaign against ...

ISIS fighters dead in failed attack on Syria Alawite town: At least 19 ISIS fighters were killed Wednesday in a failed attack on an Alawite village in the central Syrian province of Homs. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group, said three pro-regime militants were also killed repelling the attack on the village of Jub al-Jarah. The Britain-based ...

Hezbollah gains new ground in northern Qalamoun | ­ The Hezbollah-run channel said the allied forces took over Qirnat Wadi al-Maghara on the outskirts of government-held Jarajeer. The latest gain has allowed regime forces and their Lebanese allies to wrest full control over the Wadi al-Maghara crossing, which links the Qalamoun town to Lebanese territory. Hezbollah and the Syrian army ...

­ The EU signed a 15 million euro ($16,778,588) financing agreement for the training of Lebanon’s security forces Wednesday, in a dedicated effort to bolster the country’s fragile stability. The programs will be specifically designed to help security forces control the troubled eastern border, improve coordination and respond to the threat of chemical and biological weapons. Johannes Hahn, commissioner for ...

­ France said Wednesday it would look into building two nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia as part of a multibillion-euro package of deals, days before the deadline of nuclear talks with the kingdom’s rival, Iran. A feasibility study will be carried out to build two European Pressurized Reactors in Saudi Arabia, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced after a meeting ...

A Kurdish militia leading an attack on ISIS strongholds in Syria so far has no plan to extend the assault to the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa city, and such an advance should be led by Syrian rebels, a Kurdish leader said Wednesday. The comments by Saleh Muslim, leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), indicated there is no ...

U.N. investigators said on Monday that Israel and Palestinian militant groups committed grave abuses of international humanitarian law during the 2014 Gaza conflict that may amount to war crimes. They called on all sides to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has opened a separate preliminary investigation. The Palestinian Authority is expected to make its first formal submission ...

The Federal Government is working to confirm reports that Australia’s most infamous terrorists, Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, have been killed while fighting with Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. A person close to one of the men’s families told the ABC’s 7.30 program the pair died in fighting in the city of Mosul. Another source close to the families said ...