Lebanon began limiting the flow of Syrians entering the country yesterday, placing unprecedented restrictions on their entry, as it struggles to cope with a flood of asylum seekers fleeing civil war.

At least 106 people were killed today when a suicide car bomber drove into a crowd applying for work at a government office south of Baghdad, then blew himself up.

Gunmen killed five Iraq’s intelligence agents as they were returning a civilian they had freed from kidnappers to his family today.

Iraq’s government will create a new security service specifically geared toward tackling the nearly 15-month-old insurgency in the country, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in Baghdad.