Lebanon's new cabinet Thursday approved a policy statement expected to outline a broad action plan to save the protest-hit country from one of its worst economic crises in decades. Information minister Manal Abdel Samad said the document was backed unanimously during a cabinet meeting at...

At least two Palestinians were killed and 16 Israelis hurt on Thursday in a surge of violence in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, where Palestinian anger at a U.S. peace plan is high. The proposal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump would give Israel most of what it has sought...

Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called for a session to be held next week, on Tuesday and Wednesday, to vote on the new government and its policy statement. The cabinet on Thursday approved a plan to tackle the country’s severe economic and financial crisis, which it must now...

Young Iraqi protesters pushed on with anti-government rallies across the country on Thursday as they buried seven fellow activists killed overnight in violence blamed on supporters of powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr. Sadr -- a militiaman-turned-politician with a cult-like following -- had...