In August 2014, weeks after rigged elections returned Syrian President Bashar Assad a mandate to continue holding the office he had inherited from his father, Syrian border officials denied American-Lebanese journalist Sam Dagher re-entry into the country. A senior Wall Street Journal...

Jordan’s King Abdullah told U.S. President Donald Trump’s adviser Jared Kushner on Wednesday that a lasting Middle East peace can come only with the creation of a Palestinian state on land captured by Israel in a 1967 war and with East Jerusalem as its capital. Kushner is leading a U.S....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanon General Security Directorate held at least 43 Syrians, including 12 children, saying they were crossing the border illegally, according to an official statement issued Wednesday. The Lebanese Security said the detained Syrians were caught in al-Manara town...

 (Zaman al-Wasl)- The fate of the Syrian poet Anas al-Abbas is still unknown after 40 days of his abduction in Lebanon’s beirut, according to his friend and journalist Amer Matar. The 37-year-old al-Abbas was kidnapped from a hostel in Ain Mraiseh district in central Beirut...