French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe on Monday announced plans to ban participation in unauthorised demonstrations as the government scrambles to try to end weeks of violent “Yellow Vest” protests. Eight weeks into an anti-government rebellion marked by weekly clashes in...

The Lebanese Red Cross rescued more than 500 people from Akkar’s Semmaqieh refugee settlement Monday after their tents filled with floodwater as storm Norma battered Lebanon with fierce winds, heavy snow and rainfall. Red Cross vehicles transferred the 100 Syrian families to other settlements...

 Lebanon Sunday began to feel the impact of a heavy storm that is expected to gather force in the upcoming days, bringing more snow to Lebanon’s peaks, the Lebanese Daily Star reported. But such news will increase the suffering of Syrian refugees who are stranded throughout...

Two British soldiers were wounded Saturday in eastern Syria by a missile fired by Daesh (ISIS) an activist group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the pair were part of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the militants. "The two British soldiers were transported by...