Lebanon
Rushdie attacker’s mother says son returned to US as “religious zealot” after 2018 Lebanon visit
Mother of the man who stabbed renowned novelist Salman Rushdie disclosed that her son, who was born and raised in the US, travelled to Lebanon for a month and returned as a “religious zealot”, according to a report in the UK’s Daily Mail on Sunday.
Jihadists' slave markets sell girls at any price: UN envoy
Teenage girls abducted by Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria are being sold in slave markets "for as little as a pack of cigarettes," the UN envoy on sexual violence said Monday.
IS threat to rare bird near Palmyra
A rare bird may become extinct in Syria because of the capture of Palmyra by Islamic State, experts say.
Hezbollah vows to attack al-Nusra rebels 'inside Syria'
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says his Lebanese Shia group will launch an attack inside Syria on Sunni militants fighting for the al-Nusra Front.
Israel expects high civilian casualties
According to Israeli military assessment, Israel could suffer hundreds of civilian dead if it fights another war with Hezbollah.