Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam formed a new government on Saturday, the first since 2022. President Joseph Aoun said in a statement that he had accepted the resignation of former caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and signed a decree with Salam to form the new government....

Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa met in Damascus on Saturday with a delegation from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), led by its director-general, Fernando Gonzalez. The presidency said the meeting was also attended by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani,...

Mehdi al-Shayesh thought he would quickly resettle in his central Syrian hometown after Bashar al-Assad was ousted, but like many others stuck in camps, he found his home uninhabitable. “We were unbelievably happy when the regime fell,” the 40‐year‐old said from his small,...

The Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, published the names Friday of 183 Palestinian detainees who are slated to be released Saturday in exchange for three Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip. It includes 18 detainees serving life sentences and 54 serving high-term sentences in Israeli jails...