In Syria's capital, Mohammed Hallak blows through a long metal tube into billowing red-hot glass, trying to keep his waning craft alive despite a war that keeps clients away. "We're the last family to be working in glass blowing in Damascus. I'm scared the profession will disappear," said...

Two Lebanese political parties allied with Hezbollah said on Wednesday they would not be swayed by U.S. sanctions imposed on its members, with the Shi’ite Muslim Amal group saying Washington’s move was like targeting the whole nation. The United States expanded sanctions related to...

Waves of soldiers marching in double time open the new documentary by Gianfranco Rosi at the Venice film festival, but the Italian filmmaker's aim is not to depict war, but those caught in the crossfire. Whether mothers mourning sons killed in prison, children drawing in crayon the horrors...

Lebanon's President Michel Aoun has come under fire after it emerged that tea donated by Sri Lanka for victims of the Beirut blast was distributed instead to families of his presidential guards. Critics see it as yet another example of official corruption in a country reeling from the...