Dubai has won in its bid for the World Expo 2020. In the third and final round Dubai received 116 votes of a possible 132. It got through to the final round of voting with 87 votes - that's 52%, after Izmir, Turkey was eliminated with just 36 votes, Russia...

Attacks in Iraq, including suicide bombings against police and the killing of a family, left 11 people dead Wednesday, part of a surge in violence authorities have struggled to stem. The bloodshed, which has left nearly 6,000 people dead so far this year in the worst violence to hit...

The Beirut-based television channel Al-Jadeed said members of the General Security attacked Tuesday a TV program crew and arrested one journalist. Footage aired on Al-Jadeed showed the team getting beaten up by customs personnel in their plain green military uniforms...

Hezbollah is the party to blame for the infiltration of terrorism into Lebanon, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri said in an article published Sunday, as he reiterated his condemnation of Hezbollah’s intervention in the Syrian crisis. “No matter what excuses Hezbollah uses to...