BEIRUT (AP) — Poverty in Lebanon tripled over the course of a decade during which the small Mediterranean country slid into a protracted financial crisis, the World Bank said Thursday. The percentage of people in Lebanon living below the poverty line rose from 12% in 2012 to 44% in 2022,...

In a grand procession last week, Sinai militia leader  Ibrahim al-Organi  arrived at a ceremony to  inaugurate  the Arab Tribes Union, a new paramilitary entity that brings together five tribal groups from across  Egypt .  The celebration named President Abdel...

Two more Hezbollah fighters were killed in clashes with Israeli forces near the border with Lebanon, the Lebanese group said on Thursday. The group identified the slain fighters as Ali Ahmed Hamza and Ahmed Hassan Maatouq, without providing any details about the circumstances leading to...

It appears that the war on Gaza has impacted Iran’s military deployment in Syria. Local sources said Tehran has started to put in place plans for the relocation of Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) headquarters from the Damascus countryside to regions close to the border with Lebanon after...