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...

Israel has fired several missiles toward Syrian military positions near Damascus, causing material damage, Syria’s military said Friday. State media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that the attack occurred shortly before midnight Thursday, adding that some of the Israeli...

The Jordanian Customs said on Tuesday they had seized more than about 1.4 million Captagon pills smuggled by a Syrian truck.   The Customs Department said in a statement that a suspicious truck loaded with home furniture was subjected to an x-ray machine. During a close inspection, the...