BEIRUT (AP) — A gunman was captured by Lebanese soldiers after attempting to attack the U.S. Embassy near Beirut on Wednesday, the military said. The attack took place as tensions continued to simmer in the tiny Mediterranean country, where months of fighting between Hezbollah militants...

Syria’s foreign minister said Tuesday that any dialogue between Syria and Turkey should only take place after Ankara announces that it will withdraw  its troops from all Syrian  territories it controls. Faisal Mekdad made the comments during a joint news conference with Iran’s...

A group of about 20 women got down on their knees outside Russia's Defense Ministry on Monday to hold a rare protest and demand the return of their mobilized soldier husbands and sons from Ukraine. Groups of women who are the relatives of men who were mobilized into the Russian army by ...

An Iranian military adviser was killed in northern Syria in an apparent Israeli airstrike, local media reported on Monday.  According to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, the strike on military points in Aleppo left a military adviser of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)...