Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani has arrived in Washington on Thursday, in his first official trip to the US capital after the new government toppled the Bashar al-Assad regime last year. During the visit, the first by a Syrian foreign minister to Washington in more than 25 years,...

Lebanon’s military said on Wednesday that it had seized 64 million captagon pills in the country’s east in one of the largest operations against the illicit stimulant in the country. Lebanon has faced pressure from Gulf states to counter the production and trafficking of drugs,...

Human Rights Watch accused Israeli forces Wednesday of forcibly displacing residents of southern Syria, which Israel has demanded be demilitarized in a new security deal Syria is seeking with its neighbor. The statement quoted the Israeli military as saying it is operating in southern Syria...

The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released more documents Tuesday as part of an investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The committee, chaired by Republican Rep. James Comer, released the transcript of former Attorney General William Barr’s...