A defiant tyrant and his ruthless wife square up against the family oligarch, with the spoils of a nation at stake. It could be standard Ramadan television fare, but not this year. Instead, all the intrigue of Syria’s ruling family has been laid out in a spectacular real-life drama that...

Lebanon has arrested the head of the money changers' union as it battles to stabilise the value of the country's nose-diving currency on the black market, a security official said Friday. "The head of the money changers syndicate, Mahmoud Mrad, was arrested (Thursday) at the request of...

Israel said Friday it would discuss with its closest ally the United States a newspaper report that the U.S.-led peacekeeping force in the Egyptian Sinai may be drawn down, calling its nearly four-decade-old presence "important." U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is pushing to pull out...

The U.N. human rights chief Friday accused Daesh (ISIS) and other factions in Syria of taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to step up violence on civilians, describing the situation as a "ticking time-bomb." United Nations rights chief Michelle Bachelet lamented a surge in violence in...