Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said on Thursday that a United Nations plane has been grounded at the Damascus International Airport after an Israeli strike on the facility. Speaking at a conference for the return of migrants, Mekdad said the U.N. plane "is sitting there" waiting for...

Appeals judges at an international tribunal sentenced two members of the militant Hezbollah group to life imprisonment Thursday for their roles in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the deaths of 21 other people in 2005. Neither of the convicted men, Hassan...

NEW YORK CITY: The four million people in northwest Syria who rely on international aid to survive are unsure whether there will be bread on their tables after July 10. That is when an increasingly fragile UN cross-border mechanism for delivering aid to Syria is set to expire. Its renewal is...

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. refugee agency says “Europe should be much more worried” that more people from Africa’s Sahel region could seek to move north to escape violence, climate crises like droughts and floods and the impact of growing food shortages caused by Russia’s...