Lebanon's President Michel Aoun said Wednesday that the country's Prime Minister Saad Hariri was being "detained" in Saudi Arabia, where he announced his resignation earlier this month. "Nothing justifies the failure of Prime Minister Saad Hariri to return for 12 days, therefore we...

The son of a local suspected Daesh (ISIS) emir was arrested Tuesday near a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, a security source told The Daily Star.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson issued a second, fuller apology on Monday for remarks about an Iranian-British aid worker jailed in Iran that critics said might have prompted Iran to extend her prison sentence. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson...

Israel's army said Monday it had arrested a senior Islamic Jihad fighter as tensions with the group rose after the army blew up one of its tunnels from Gaza. The army arrested overnight the "senior operative" in Arraba near Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, Israel's military...