Iraq’s prime minister said authorities captured Ghazwan al-Zawbaee (BBC), a militant belonging to the self-proclaimed Islamic State who is believed to have been the primary culprit of an attack that killed some three hundred people at a shopping center in 2016.
Lebanon: The legislature voted to hold elections (Reuters) on March 27, giving Prime Minister Najib Mikati only a few months to secure a recovery package from the International Monetary Fund. The World Bank has called Lebanon’s financial crisis one of the worst in modern history.