US President Donald Trump, who has used belittling nicknames to describe his opponents throughout his political career, toyed with a name change Friday for his Democratic rival in the Nov. 3 election, Joe Biden. Unable to hold his signature large campaign rallies because of the...

Claudette Halabi cried out from beneath the rubble of her house for an hour before she died. The neighbors couldn't save her. "We kept hearing the screams. I heard her voice. But we couldn't do anything. It still hurts," said Johnny Khawand, near the remains of her Beirut building. The...

Ten days after the deadly Beirut explosion, rescue workers recovered the remains of firefighters killed while battling the initial blaze, as authorities appointed a well-respected judge to lead the investigation. Beirut, brought to its knees by the cataclysmic explosion, has seen the...

Elements of the Islamic State group are working to rebuild in western Syria, where the US has little visibility or presence, the top US commander for the Middle East warned Wednesday. In the region west of the Euphrates River where the Syrian regime is in control "conditions are as bad or...