Lebanon’s Hezbollah-backed government will walk a political tightrope as it acts to urgently secure foreign funding to ward off financial collapse, and could look to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance. Formed by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and its allies, the...

U.S actions have crippled efforts to launch talks between Israel and Palestine, Russian presidential aide said Wednesday.  "We believe that the U.S. unilateral actions undermine the international efforts to restart direct talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis," Yury Ushakov...

Libyan government forces announced on Wednesday that the militias of warlord Khalifa Haftar bombed the Mitiga International Airport in the capital Tripoli, in a new breach of the Jan. 12 cease-fire.   Mohamed Qanounu, spokesman for the forces of the UN-recognized Government of...

President Donald Trump minimized Wednesday the severity of head injuries sustained by U.S. troops during the Iranian missile strikes on two Iraqi air bases as he was pressed on why he'd claimed no troops had been injured in the attacks. "I heard they had headaches and a couple of other...