The Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States said Tuesday that Pope Francis would like to visit Lebanon "soon" amid the country's crippling economic crisis. Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher spoke after a meeting with President Michel Aoun who thanked the Vatican for supporting Lebanon....

Lebanon's security forces busted at least 17 suspected Israeli spy networks in one of the largest nationwide crackdowns in recent years, state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported Monday. Those networks operated both "locally and regionally," Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi was...

Syrian air defenses confronted Israeli missiles targeting an area near the capital, Damascus, downing some of them, Syria's state news agency reported Monday. SANA cited a military source as saying the missiles came from the skies over eastern Lebanon, and targeted outposts in the vicinity...

Iraqi airstrikes killed nine suspected Islamic State fighters, including four Lebanese, in retaliation for an IS attack on Iraqi army barracks earlier this month, officials said Sunday. IS gunmen in Iraq broke into a barracks in the mountainous al-Azim district outside the town of Baqouba on...