(AFP)- Lebanon has all but closed its borders to refugees fleeing Syria's civil war, overwhelmed by an influx of over one million people displaced by fighting, UN and Lebanese officials said Saturday. Quoted by Lebanon's Al-Akhbar newspaper, Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas...

Reporting by Eyad Al Jaafari: Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- It is not unfamiliar to find out that the cashier or the violinist in a restaurant is a Syrian doctor, or an engineer or even a teacher, used to have respectful life in Syria. Unfortunately, as...

BEIRUT (AP) — With all eyes on the Islamic State group's onslaught in Iraq and Syria, a less conspicuous but potentially just as explosive front line with the extremists is emerging in Lebanon, where Lebanese soldiers and Shiite Hezbollah guerrillas are increasingly pulled into...

Kurdish forces in the Syrian town of Kobane repulsed a new attempt by Islamic State fighters to cut off the border with Turkey Saturday as troops battled the jihadists in neighbouring Iraq. A Kurdish official reported five new US-led strikes around Kobane overnight as the...