Lebanon’s parliament speaker said on Thursday that a framework had been agreed for talks with Israel to end a long-running border dispute between the two nations that are formally at war. Nabih Berri, who said the army would lead the Lebanese team, told a news conference negotiations...

The coronavirus may have been slow to reach the sealed-off Gaza Strip, but Palestinians in the densely populated enclave have been quick to embrace mask-wearing to try to contain its spread. Five weeks into an outbreak of COVID-19 among the general population in the territory, restaurants,...

The US President Donald Trump signed early Thursday a stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown and keep it running into December.  The bill, which passed the US Senate earlier with 84-10 vote, will keep the government agencies funded at the 2020 fiscal year levels through...

Abdullah Abdullah, the man leading Afghanistan’s peace process, thanked Pakistan for efforts to forge a “new path” with its war-weary neighbor as he concluded a three-day visit to Islamabad late on Wednesday. Abdullah, the head of Afghanistan's High Council for National...