Asharq al-Awsat

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos was on an official visit to Beirut on Thursday, where he stressed the importance of a trilateral partnership that has been forged between Greece, Cyprus and Lebanon.

The Iraqi Turkmen Front has expressed concern over a U.S. House committee discussion on a bill which aims to arm Kurds and Sunni tribes in Iraq.

The U.S. House committee discussed on April 29 proposed legislation that would grant President Barack Obama's request for $715 million for security assistance to Iraqi forces fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The battle for the Syrian town of Kobane will turn into a war of attrition unless Kurds defending it from an the onslaught of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants get arms that can repel tanks and armoured vehicles, a Syrian Kurdish leader told a pan-Arab newspaper.