The Saudi student who fatally shot three people at a U.S. naval base in Florida hosted a dinner party earlier in the week where he and three others watched videos of mass shootings, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Saturday. Officials investigating the deadly attack were...

Lebanon appealed to more friendly states on Saturday to help it import essential goods as it wrestles with an acute economic crisis and hard currency shortages, the office of caretaker Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said. Hariri wrote to the leaders of Germany, Britain and Spain on Saturday...

Lebanese journalists are facing threats and wide-ranging harassment in their work — including verbal insults and physical attacks, even death threats — while reporting on nearly 50 days of anti-government protests, despite Lebanon’s reputation as a haven for free speech in a troubled...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 50 Syrian restaurants and shops have closed their doors to customers in Sudan as the newly-appointed government wages major campaign against workers who don't have legal residence or work permits. Owners of the Syrian restaurants in Khartoum have closed their...