Lebanon’s army said on Thursday it had found 4.35 tonnes of ammonium nitrate near the entrance to Beirut port, the site of a huge blast last month caused by a large stockpile of the same highly explosive chemical. Army engineers were “dealing with it,” according to an army...

France's intelligence chief has joined efforts to push Lebanon to deliver a new government and reforms, Lebanese sources said Thursday, buttressing President Emmanuel Macron's bid to pull the country out of a devastating economic crisis. Macron is centre stage in international efforts to...

Presumed Israeli air strikes on eastern Syria killed 16 Iran-backed fighters Thursday, a war monitor said, hours after Damascus said it intercepted Israeli missiles fired at a central air base. Those killed were "Iraqi paramilitary fighters loyal to Iran, seven of whom were killed outside...

The death toll from this month's Beirut port blast has risen to 190 with more than 6,500 injured and three people missing, Lebanon's caretaker government said in a report dated Sunday. Lebanese authorities are probing what caused highly explosive material stored unsafely for years to...