BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of fighters from Iran-backed groups in the Middle East are ready to come to Lebanon to join with the militant Hezbollah group in its battle with Israel if the simmering conflict escalates into a full-blown war, officials with Iran-backed factions and analysts say....

The Hague – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) on Thursday released a report to mark World Refugee Day 2024, in which the group notes that it has documented the arrest by Syrian regime forces of at least 4,714 refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) returning to Syria. SNHR...

The European Union’s (EU) general court has rejected an appeal by a prominent Syrian businessman and chair of the airliner, Cham Wings, to have the company removed from the bloc’s sanctions list, months after it was re-added on to the blacklist. Since January this year, the EU added...

MILAN (AP) — The Italian coast guard on Thursday recovered 12 more bodies from a  weekend shipwreck in the Ionian Sea  off the southern Italian coastline, bringing to 20 the number of known victims from the sinking. Dozens more are missing and presumed dead. The bodies, including...