Lebanon's former foreign minister Gebran Bassil Sunday said the United States had urged him to sever ties with Shiite movement Hezbollah before targeting him with sanctions over alleged corruption. The punitive measures announced Friday are the first against a senior Christian ally of...

The announcement Saturday that Democratic challenger Joe Biden beat incumbent Republican Donald Trump in the hotly contested US presidential election has drawn mixed reactions in Iran.  Soon after US media declared Biden the winner, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei took to...

Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil. His victory came after more than three days of...

(AP) — Donald Trump, who defied political gravity with his extraordinary rise from reality star and businessman to the presidency, has fallen back to earth. In the end, his flurry of raucous rallies, an unprecedented turnout operation and sheer force of will could not overcome the...