Heavily armed Lebanese security forces deployed across the northern city of Tripoli on Saturday as forensic experts sifted through the rubble from twin car bombs that killed at least 47 people the day before. The coordinated explosions Friday outside two mosques in the predominantly Sunni...

As  President Obama  weighs options for responding to a suspected chemical weapons attack in  Syria , his national security aides are studying the  NATO  air war in  Kosovo  as a possible blueprint for acting without a mandate from the...

      Lebanese officials condemned the explosions outside two mosques in the northern city of Tripoli Friday, saying they were aiming to incite strife in the country.   President Michel Sleiman denounced the explosions in Tripoli describing...

 One million Syrian children have now been registered as refugees, forced from their homeland by a war that is well into its third year, the United Nations announced on Friday. "What is at stake is nothing less than the survival and wellbeing of a generation of innocents," António...