JERUSALEM / AP Israel’s attorney general says he’s decided to indict an Arab lawmaker for smuggling cellphones to Palestinians serving prison sentences for security offenses. Avichai Mendelblit’s office said on Thursday that he will charge Basel Ghattas with prohibited use of property for terrorist purposes as well as fraud and breach of trust. Ghattas was caught last month smuggling phones …

  BEIRUT / AP An al-Qaida-linked group in Syria says a nearly week-old cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey is “humiliating” and that those who agreed to it made a “big mistake.” The cease-fire, which excludes the Al-Qaida-linked Fatah al-Sham Front as well as the IS group, has largely held, except for intense fighting in the Barada Valley outside Damascus, …

  BEIRUT / AP A leader of suspected sympathizers of the IS group was killed on Thursday in a clash with Philippine police in the south, raising fears that his brutal group may retaliate by attacking a huge Catholic procession in Manila next week. Senior Supt. Leonardo Suan and other officials said Mohammad Jaafar Maguid, leader of a small but …