Following in the footsteps of other European countries, Britain intends to freeze decisions on the fate of 6,500 Syrian asylum seekers amid efforts to return refugees after the fall of the Assad regime. A statement from the British Home Office said that the decision to temporarily halt...

The Israeli army launched an airstrike in the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, the first such attack since a cease-fire agreement last month, Lebanese media said. The Israeli strike targeted an area between the towns of Talia and Hizzine in the Baalbek district, the state news...

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Monday Lebanon will cooperate with an Interpol request to arrest former Syrian intelligence officer Jamil Hassan, accused by US authorities of war crimes under the toppled al-Assad government. Last week, Lebanon received an official...

Activity at Russia’s Hmeimim Air Base in Syria, which played a pivotal role in altering the trajectory of the civil war in late 2015, has reportedly come to a near standstill. Following the summer of 2015, when the regime of Bashar al-Assad faced significant losses to opposition forces,...