TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Survivors of a doomed migrant boat blamed the Lebanese navy on Sunday for sinking it, saying a naval vessel rammed the packed ship while trying to force it back to shore. Meanwhile the death toll of Saturday night's disaster rose to seven, with state media reporting...

Syrian economists assume that the Syrian Central Bank is causing a stagnation in the real estate market through measures aimed at withdrawing liquidity from the market, in addition to the many fees and taxes, which caused the Syrians to refrain from buying and selling real estate. Analyst...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces called in airstrikes on a besieged steel factory in the southern city of Mariupol to try to dislodge the last Ukrainian troops holding out in the strategic port, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would meet in Kyiv...

 The Lebanese military Sunday recovered the bodies of eight migrants whose boat carrying at least 56 people capsized the night before, raising the death toll to nine, state media reported. The National News Agency said the eight bodies were found near a small island off the coast of the...