Lebanon will re-open Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport for commercial flights beginning July 1, but will keep air traffic at 10% of capacity from a year ago, a statement from the prime minister’s office said on Friday. Private flights will resume from June 24, the statement...

The federal government is seizing a Waltham home that a fugitive couple allegedly used to unlawfully ship goods to Syria, including to a company linked to improvised explosive devices used against US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, prosecutors said. In a statement, US Attorney Andrew E....

In scenes not witnessed for years in government-controlled parts of Syria, dozens of men and women marched through the streets this week, protesting a sharp increase in prices and collapse of the currency, some even calling for the downfall of President Bashar Assad and his ruling Baath party....

Hundreds of Lebanese poured into the streets to protest the tumbling of the national currency to a new low against the dollar Thursday, blocking roads and highways in several places across the small country that had started slowly opening up after months of coronavirus restrictions. In...