Three Palestinians were killed, including two children, in an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

Meanwhile, the Lebanese army is deploying units deep in southern Lebanon as Israel continues to withdraw from the country.

Lebanon's parliament will attempt to elect elect a new head of state on Thursday, with officials seeing better odds of ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's parliament is set to convene Thursday to attempt to elect a head of state for the 13th time during a ...

GENEVA (Switzerland) - World Economic Forum launches its annual Global Risks report (0900 GMT) LISBON (Portugal) - Firefighters strike (1200 GMT) PICTURE. UNITED NATIONS (United States) - UN Secretary ...

The Israeli military launched a wave of raids across the occupied West Bank overnight and into Tuesday, killing at least ...

Analysis: After decades of fraught ties shaped by conflict and occupation, will Assad's fall lead to a new era of stability ...

Lebanon’s cabinet voted Tuesday to deport to the United Arab Emirates an Egyptian activist and poet detained by Lebanese security forces after crossing the porous border from Syria last month.