A Turkish judge ruled Monday to keep five people in jail at the start of their trial over former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn's escape from Japan to Lebanon via Istanbul, a lawyer for one of the suspects said. An executive from Turkish private jet operator MNG Jet and four pilots were...

Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad buried its former leader Ramadan Shalah in Syria Sunday, an AFP correspondent said, a day after he died in neighbouring Lebanon. The 62-year-old died in a Beirut hospital before his body was transported to neighbouring Syria, a Palestinian source...

Lebanon is once again caught between a rock and a hard place as the US adds more painful measures to penalize any country or individuals who knowingly conduct financial activities that benefit the Syrian regime. Better known as Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, this law which was...

The former head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement died Saturday night after a long illness. He was 62. Ramadan Shalah had been in a coma for more than three years after heart surgery, the group said. It didn't say where he died, but he is believed to have been in Lebanon. Shalah...