Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun held talks Tuesday with his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa on the sidelines of an Arab summit in Cairo, during which the pair agreed on containing incidents along their shared border. Syria shares a 330-kilometre (205-mile) border with Lebanon, with no...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa condemned on Tuesday the call to displace the Palestinian people from their land, considering it a "disgrace against humanity" and a "threat to the entire Arab nation". This came in his speech before the emergency Arab summit in the Egyptian capital, Cairo,...

The Israeli army has claimed it killed Mohammad Mahdi Ali Shaheen, a Hezbollah leader, in a Thursday airstrike in the eastern Lebanese region of Hermel. In a Friday statement, the Israeli army said that the airstrike had targeted the Bekaa Valley. “Shaheen, a key Hezbollah figure, was...

Kurdish party leader Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday urged fighters to lay down their arms and to dissolve the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group that he founded. Here are five key dates in the history of Ocalan and the PKK, which has fought an insurgency against the Turkish state...