Hezbollah and its allies are pressing the Lebanese state to normalize relations with President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, testing Lebanon's policy of "dissociation" from the Syrian conflict and igniting a political row. Calls for closer ties with the Syrian government, including...

More than 600,000 Syrians returned to their homes in the first seven months of this year, nearly as many as in all of 2016, but they are still outnumbered by those freshly displaced, the U.N. migration agency said Friday. Many went back to their areas of origin to check on property or...

The U.N. Yemen envoy called on Friday for the urgent reopening of the airport in the rebel-held capital Sanaa, which has been closed to all but limited U.N. flights for a year. A Saudi-led coalition supporting the government imposed an air and sea blockade on rebel-held territory in March...

Turkish police on Friday detained 42 people over suspected militant links in operations across two separate provinces, security sources said and media reported. Police detained 22 suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants in operations across the eastern province of Elazig, security sources said....