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 ...

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

After two years of a presidential vacuum, Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun was elected president Thursday in the second round ...

This is a locator map of Israel and the Palestinian Territories ... WHO says Israel must let more sick and wounded people ...

Saudi Arabia says it has executed six Iranian men over drug smuggling, sparking strong objections from Iran at a time when ...

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 ...

Two of Bashar al-Assad’s relatives have been arrested at Beirut airport with forged passports, while his uncle, who is wanted for war crimes, has flown to Dubai. Syria’s embassy in Lebanon ...