Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres took the lead in the first straw poll vote on Thursday to pick the next UN secretary-general, diplomats said. Slovenia’s former president Danilo Turk came second in the secret vote by the UN Security Council to choose a successor to Ban Ki-moon.
Hezbollah mujahidin (fighters) Thursday launched a rocketry attack on one of ISIL posts in Qaa barrens on Lebanon’s northeastern border with Syria, inflicting heavy losses upon the group’s terrorists and their vehicles. Hezbollah has been confronting the terrorist groups along the Lebanese-Syrian border and across Syria provinces since the inception ...