Hezbollah and its allies are pressing the Lebanese state to normalize relations with President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, testing Lebanon's policy of "dissociation" from the Syrian conflict and igniting a political row. Calls for closer ties with the Syrian government, including...

Turkish police on Friday detained 42 people over suspected militant links in operations across two separate provinces, security sources said and media reported. Police detained 22 suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants in operations across the eastern province of Elazig, security sources said....

The director of Yemen's national blood bank says the facility could shut down within a week after a medical aid charity ended its support. Ayman el-Shihari, the blood bank's general director, said Thursday its closure could lead to a "humanitarian catastrophe." He says the facility receives...

Israeli authorities have demolished three homes and sealed off a fourth of Palestinian nationals who carried out attacks that killed a soldier and a policewoman, the Israeli Army said on Thursday. Israel regularly carries out such demolitions, which it says act as a deterrent, but human...