Hezbollah has replaced its top security official, Wafiq Safa, who was in charge of coordination with Lebanon’s security agencies.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died.

President Donald Trump says “there will be very serious retaliation” after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Isl...

Hospitals say that Israeli strikes overnight killed at least 57 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Hamas was still considering its response on Thursday to U.S.

Hezbollah is regrouping after suffering significant losses in its recent conflict with Israel. The Lebanese militant group lost its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in Israeli airstrikes a year ago ...

Israel has struck a high-rise building in Gaza City after warning residents to evacuate. Strikes elsewhere in Gaza City killed at least 27 people, health officials said.

The pager attack across Lebanon killed 12 people, including two children, and wounded more than 3,000.

Cyprus says it will offer Syrian families money to help them resettle back in their homeland and allow the family head to remain on the island nation for up to three years to work as part of a volunta...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the man believed to be the head of Hamas’ armed wing, Mohammed Sinwar, has been killed, apparently confirming his death in a recent strike in the Gaza St...

A Swedish man has been indicted as a member of the Islamic State group in connection with the killing of a Jordanian pilot whose plane went down in Syria on Christmas Eve 2014.

A U.S.-backed group that is slated to take over aid distribution in Gaza says it's started operations despite opposition from the U.N. and the unexpected resignation of its executive director.

Only about 900 people in the world speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic. The offshoot of Syrian Arabic also known as Sanna, had been passed on orally over the centuries.

WASHINGTON: The head of a controversial US-backed group preparing to move aid into the Gaza Strip announced his abrupt resignation Sunday, adding fresh uncertainty over the effort’s future. In a state...

Catholic worshippers have for weeks flocked to Alba de Tormes, a town ringed by rolling pastures in western Spain where the remains of the Spanish saint, mystic and 16th-century religious reformer Sai...

Several Palestinians and Israeli soldiers say troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.

Residents of southern Lebanon have voted in the country’s municipal elections that will test support for Hezbollah in the predominantly Shiite areas, months after the end of the destructive Israel-Hez...

At least 23 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza overnight as Israel pressed ahead with its military offensive and let in minimal aid to the strip.

Iran and the United States are preparing for a fifth round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, with enrichment emerging as the key issue.

The U.N. children’s agency says more than 9,000 children have been treated for malnutrition in Gaza this year, and food security experts say tens of thousands of cases are expected in the coming year.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country, the United States, Syria and Iraq have formed a working group to try to resolve the issue of Islamic State group prisoners held in Syria.

The Lebanese and Palestinian presidents have agreed that Palestinian factions won't use Lebanon as a launchpad for any attacks against Israel.

The European Union's top diplomat says the EU will lift sanctions on Syria’s economy but keep those in place targeting the former Assad regime.

Syria's capital, Damascus, is suffering from its worst water shortages in years as a result of the lowest rainfall in more than six decades.

Lebanese military authorities have warned the Hamas group that it would face the “harshest measures” if it carried out any attacks from Lebanon.

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group is calling on the government to work harder on ending Israel’s attacks in the country a day after an Israeli airstrike hit a suburb of Beirut.

The World Bank has given Lebanon a $250 million loan to help ease electricity cuts in the crisis-hit country.

The U.S. will withdraw about 600 troops from Syria, leaving fewer than 1,000 to work with Kurdish allies to counter the Islamic State group.

A portrait of a young Palestinian boy who lost both arms as a result of an Israeli attack in Gaza has been named World Press Photo of the year.

Israel’s defense minister says that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely.

Tunisians are embracing snails as a protein-packed alternative as the cost of red meat remains high.

Israel has launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November.

A former jihadist has remade himself in a bid to remake a scarred and divided country.

For years, the country has failed to enact financial and governance overhauls required by lenders. The recent fighting has made that problem urgent.

Lebanon’s president has ordered troops to retaliate for gunfire from the Syrian side of the border after more deadly fighting erupted overnight along the tense frontier.

The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations to resettle Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Lebanon has appointed a new army chief and heads of three security agencies as the government seeks to firm up state authority, especially in the country’s south, following the militant Hezbollah grou...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted president Bashar Assad and his family.

JARAMANA: Syria’s Druze minority has a long history of cutting their own path to survive among the country’s powerhouses. They are now trying again to navigate a new, uncertain Syria since the fall of...

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring ...

US President describes Lebanese-American businessman as financial expert with a 'remarkable' career in banking, entrepreneurship and international trade

A war monitoring group says the death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more t...

A war monitor says two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad have left more than 200 people dead.

A prominent Druze leader in Lebanon has said that he will soon visit Syria to meet its interim leader as tensions simmer between members of the minority group, the war-torn country’s interim governmen...

The ministry of antiquities said the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II, whose wife, Hatshepsut, took the throne after his death, was the first excavation of a royal tomb near the Valley of the King...

The conflict between Turkey and the PKK has led to tens of thousands of deaths since it began in 1984.

Lebanon’s new prime minister, Nawaf Salam, has used a tour of areas near the border with Israel that suffered wide destruction during the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war to call for an Israeli withdrawa...

An ancient town in Syria is one of the world’s few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used.

An investigation by Israel's military has determined that Hamas was able to carry out the deadliest attack in Israeli history on Oct. 7, 2023, because the much more powerful Israeli army misjudged the...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of l...

Kurdish officials warn that Islamic State threat is greater than ever in the vacuum left from Syrian regime’s collapse