The Lebanese military Sunday recovered the bodies of eight migrants whose boat carrying at least 56 people capsized the night before, raising the death toll to nine, state media reported. The National News Agency said the eight bodies were found near a small island off the coast of the...

One child has died but more than 40 people have been saved after the sinking of a boat off the coast of Lebanon’s northern port city of Tripoli on Saturday, transport minister Ali Hamie told Reuters. The Lebanese Red Cross said in a tweet that there were about 60 people onboard. The...

Christians in Syria's northwestern Idlib province have been performing their religious duties freely, said Hanna Celluf, the archpriest of Qunayah Church. Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), Celluf said: "No one disturbs us while we are performing our prayers. No one harasses us. We don't come...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban's deputy culture and information minister, said the bombing in...