Harsh rhetoric from Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah appeared to threaten further conflict after border unrest this week, but experts predict both sides will try to avoid escalation. As the coronavirus pandemic has deepened Lebanon's economic turmoil and also rocked Israeli politics, the last...

Syria's foreign ministry said Sunday that an American oil company had signed an agreement with Kurdish-led rebels who control northeastern oilfields in what it described as an illegal deal aimed at "stealing" Syria's crude. A ministry statement, published on state media, did not name the...

 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has promised to soon reveal his running mate. And as the suspense builds over who Biden will choose to be on the ticket for November's election, this much is known -- it will be a woman. About a dozen names have been bandied about by...

Iraqi midwife Umm Mariam used to help bring three babies into the world per day. But with mothers-to-be avoiding pandemic-hit hospitals, she now delivers twice that number in her makeshift home clinic. Across the country recovering from decades of war, health centres face shortages of...