Lebanon is in “the final hours before” formally announcing it cannot pay its debts, senior MP Alain Aoun said on Saturday, as the president, prime minister and parliament speaker met ahead of an official declaration later in the day. Sources told Reuters on Friday Lebanon was set to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 700 Syrian refugees have been displaced due to a river flood in the Lebanese district of Akkar, one of the refugees told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday. The floods of Awaik River have destroyed about 100 tents in the camp, said Abu Yazan.  The Mediterranean...

A senior member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Farhad Dabirian, was "martyred" in Syria on Friday, Fars news agency reported, without giving details of how he died. The agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, described Dabirian as a "defender of Sayida Zainab shrine," the...

Lebanon looks set to announce Saturday it cannot make upcoming dollar bond payments and wants to restructure $31 billion of foreign currency debt, sources said, unless a last-minute deal with creditors is found to avoid a disorderly default. Debt default would mark a new phase in a...