Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said Sunday his group would not surrender or lay down its weapons in response to Israeli threats, despite pressure on the Lebanese militants to disarm. “This threat will not make us accept surrender,” Qassem said in a televised speech to thousands of his...

Turkey sent two firefighting aircraft Saturday to help battle wildfires in neighboring Syria as Turkish firefighters battled a blaze on their side of the border and one person was reported dead in the country’s west. Eleven fire trucks and water support vehicles were also dispatched to...

The Greek Orthodox Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation held a mass on Saturday for three detainees executed in Tadmur (Palmyra) Prison between 1982 and 1983, after their fates were confirmed according to documents published by Zaman al-Wasl. According to a source close to the newspaper,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was sending a team to Qatar Sunday for talks on a truce and hostage release in Gaza, after Hamas said it was ready to start negotiations “immediately.” But Netanyahu, who is due to meet with President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday,...