Lebanon on Friday signed a request for financial help from the International Monetary Fund, initiating a long process the government hopes will ease the country’s worst post-war economic crisis. "Prime Minister Hassan Diab and Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni signed a request for assistance...

An apparent spat in the once tight-knit family of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad deepened overnight Thursday when his tycoon cousin Rami Makhlouf made a rare direct appeal for help on Facebook over an order to seize his assets and impose fines. Mr Makhlouf, Mr Assad’s maternal cousin...

Syria and Yemen face potential devastation if a large-scale outbreak of the novel coronavirus hits the war-torn regions, according to humanitarian aid organizations. "The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to be a global socio-economic earthquake. It will be felt acutely in the region's conflict...

US presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday emphatically denied sexually assaulting a former staffer, saying the incident she claims occurred 27 years ago "never happened." "They aren't true. This never happened," Biden said in a statement regarding the accusations made by Tara Reade, a...