The top U.N. official for Libya said Wednesday there are at least 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries in the war-torn nation, and warned of a “serious crisis” as weapons continue pouring into the North African country. “That is a shocking violation of Libyan sovereignty...

Lebanon will not have enough hospital beds to cope with increasing COVID-19 cases, the health minister in the caretaker government warned on Thursday, saying compliance with a two-week lockdown that ended this week had been patchy. In a Tweet, Hamad Hasan said cases were on the rise and...

Basketball player Charles Tabet was once a national hero blocking shots for Lebanon, but a crumbling economy has forced him into a new life selling cars in Michigan. After a decade playing in his country of origin, the 33-year-old Lebanese-American last month returned to his native US state...

Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing died Wednesday at the age of 94 after contacting the novel coronavirus. His family said in a statement that he passed away at his home in the Loir-et-Cher region. He was hospitalized in the city of Tours on Nov. 17 due to respiratory...