Firas and Zeina survived Beirut's port explosion unscathed but still sustained severe injuries -- not in the disaster itself but in the heavy-handed crackdown on the street protests that followed. Firas Hamdan, 33, a lawyer who was filming one demonstration, was hit in the heart by a lead...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Wednesday not to yield to "pirates" and to continue searching for energy in disputed eastern Mediterranean waters despite EU pressure to stop. Long-held tensions in the region flared when Turkey last week sent a research vessel accompanied by...

Sudan's foreign ministry spokesman was fired Wednesday, after he made allegedly unauthorized comments indicating contact had been made with Israel regarding normalizing ties, state media said. Israel remains technically at war with Sudan, which for years supported hardline Islamist forces....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged Wednesday that the Trump administration will continue to support Iraq as it confronts the threat posed by the Islamic State group, but he also called for the Baghdad government to redouble efforts to rein in pro-Iran militias. Pompeo said the United...