Shoulder to shoulder on the conflict in syria u. S. President donald trump and russian president Vladimir Putin reaffirmed their common commitment to ending the war and defeating the Islamic State. No place to call home we need a family of kurdish refugees who have spent the past two years stranded in serbia failing in all their attempts so far to reach western europe. Welcome to the program in the middle east tensions between saudi arabia and iran are on the rise the palestra go between the two rivals has now spilled over into lebanon whose Prime Minister saad how do you see unexpectedly resigned while on a visit to saudi arabia now lebanons powerful has been the chief is accusing saudi arabia of detaining hariri and now the un and us are warning riyadh not to use the country as an arena for proxy conflict. Kuwaiti citizens heading out of lebanon their government is one of several gulf states that has ordered its people to leave the country this comes amid sharpening tensions in the r