He was only a year old when his panicked father picked him up and they fled with his mother from the gunfire rattling their neighborhood. It was the day Lebanon’s civil war started 46 years ago. His family’s apartment building in Beirut was on the frontline. Now 47, Bahij Dana did the...

  Two Turkish soldiers were killed and four others wounded on Friday evening by a roadside bomb in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, a war monitor reported. The bombing targeted Turkish military vehicles near the Maarrat Misrin area in the northern countryside of Idlib, said the...

Turkey is preparing for possible further military action against a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia in northern Syria if talks on the issue with the United States and Russia fail, two Turkish officials said. President Tayyip Erdogan said this week Ankara was determined to eliminate threats...

 Schools, banks and government offices across Lebanon shut down Friday after hours of gun battles between heavily armed militias killed seven people and terrorized the residents of Beirut. The government called for a day of mourning following the armed clashes, in which gunmen used...