Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday strongly denied that his powerful Shiite movement had stored arms at Beirut's port, describing the cataclysmic explosion there as "a major tragedy". "We have nothing in the port: not an arms depot, nor a missile depot nor missiles nor rifles nor...

The president of Lebanon on Friday said the causes of a massive explosion in the capital Beirut's port had yet to be determined, without ruling out the possibility of foreign interference. Michel Aoun said in a press conference in the presidential palace that he asked French President...

A Palestinian women was shot dead in the West Bank where Israeli soldiers clashed with Palestinians Friday, Palestinian medical officials said. Palestinian officials said Israeli troops had shot the 23-year-old. An Israeli army spokesman said soldiers did not use live fire during the...

The United States said Friday it was sending an immediate $15 million worth of food and medicine to help Lebanon after Beirut's massive port blast. The aid, to be transported through the US military, amounts to three months' worth of food for 50,000 people and three months' worth of...