BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese troops rescued a Saudi citizen kidnapped over the weekend in Beirut, the army said Tuesday. The man reportedly had been held for ransom. A statement by the Lebanese military said Mushari al-Mutairi was released in a “special operation” along the Lebanon-Syria...

Airstrikes attributed to Israel targeted Syria's capital city late Sunday, the first such strikes in nearly a month, Syrian state media reported. Syrian air defenses responded to the strikes in the vicinity of Damascus and shot down some of them, state news agency SANA reported. The attack...

Half a million children in government-held areas in war-torn Yemen face the risk of acute malnutrition this year, the United Nations warned. "As acute malnutrition continues to worsen in southern governorates, it is estimated that in 2023, half a million children will be acutely...

BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations announced Saturday that it will suspend a plan to begin making aid payments to Syrian refugees in crisis-wracked Lebanon in dollars, after pushback from Lebanese officials. Lebanon has been in the throes of a severe financial crisis since 2019, with...