Dr Firass Abiad was a little-known Beirut hospital director until the coronavirus pandemic propelled him into the spotlight and restored at least some faith in Lebanon's much-maligned public sector. At a time when the country has also been mired in its deepest economic crisis in decades and...

An Islamic State group attack on a prison in eastern Afghanistan holding hundreds of its members raged Monday after killing at least 21 people in fighting overnight, a local official said. That's according to Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province. He says the...

The death of Rafic Hariri is to many Lebanese what the JFK assassination was to Americans four decades earlier -- everybody remembers what they were doing when the news broke. On Valentine's Day 2005, the former prime minister who embodied the reconstruction of the country after its...

Italy inaugurates a sleek new bridge in Genoa on Monday, though relatives of the 43 people killed when the old viaduct collapsed say the pomp and ceremony risk overshadowing the tragedy. Jets trailing the colours of the Italian flag will roar overhead as the national anthem plays, almost...