People lined up for a chance to take a selfie with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday (January 17) as he walked through the streets of Beirut, Lebanon. Some shook the French leader's hand ...

France’s president began a visit to Lebanon Friday, where he will meet the crisis-hit country’s newly elected leaders, as the ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...

Lebanon's newly appointed Prime Minister Nawaf Salam vowed on Tuesday to start a new chapter in the country, local TV channel ...

It’s been a long time since early humans rubbed two sticks together and made fire. Today, we have ways to blow up entire ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Miyazaki Prefecture Monday evening in Japan, initially setting off a ...

The Israeli army has said it carried out a drone strike on Hezbollah members who were leaving a building in southern Lebanon.

In Lebanon, many saw the election on Thursday of Gen. Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese military, as a crucial step ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's parliament elects army commander Joseph Aoun as president, breaking a two-year deadlock. An Assad official claims Putin betrayed his ally by promising support that never came.

Fragments of the missile were seen in Bet Shemesh near Jerusalem. Two people have been killed in northern Gaza as gunmen attacked an aid convoy, the World Food Programme said on Monday, prompting ...

World News // 9 hours ago U.N. rights chief: Atrocities committed in Syria beyond belief BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the extent of ...