Long a lifeline for families back home, migrant workers in oil-rich Gulf Arab states now find themselves trapped by the coronavirus pandemic, losing jobs, running out of money and desperate to return to their home countries as COVID-19 stalks their labor camps. Whether on the island of...

A Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon has been put on lockdown after the UN announced the first confirmed case of coronavirus in one of the country's numerous and crowded camps. The patient, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, has been taken to the state-run Rafic Hariri hospital in Beirut,...

A gunman killed at least nine people, including five Syrians, during a shooting spree in Lebanon's mountain town of Baakline on Tuesday, police sources told dpa. The victims include a Syrian couple and their two children, a Syrian man, a Lebanese woman and three Lebanese men....

Lebanon's parliament sat Tuesday in a conference hall to allow for social distancing between lawmakers amid the coronavirus pandemic, while outside anti-government protesters demonstrated in a car convoy. As the country struggles with a battered economy, MPs approved a $120 million loan...