Hundreds of mourners including Syria's religious affairs minister attended a funeral in Damascus Friday for the state's top Muslim cleric, who was killed in a bombing near the capital. Sheikh Mohammed Adnan Afiouni, the Sunni Muslim Mufti of Damascus who was close to President Bashar...

Palestinian lawyers Thursday filed a complaint to sue the British government for the 1917 declaration setting out London's support for a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. The lawyers filed a complaint in the occupied West Bank town of Nablus that claimed "the suffering of...

A roadside bombing Thursday killed a senior Syrian cleric who played a key role in government deals with rebel fighters, according to Syrian state media and a government website. The explosion that killed Damascus Mufti Adnan Afiouni took place in the town of Qudsaya, west of the capital of...

Lebanese veteran politician Saad al-Hariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the country’s worst crisis since its 1975-1990 civil war. After his nomination, Hariri said he would quickly form a cabinet of specialists to...