Former Lebanon warlord Samir Geagea, a staunch opponent of Syria and the Shiite movement Hezbollah, will stand for the presidency in May, his Christian Lebanese Forces party said on Friday. Geagea, 61, was the only leader from the 1975-1990 civil war ever jailed, but was...

Within the small community of minority Arabs where he lived in southwest Iran , Hashem Shaabani was known as a teacher, an advocate for civil rights and a poet. But to the Islamic Republic he was seen as a threat. Shaabani, 32, was arrested in February 2011 and accused of...

Members of the Islamic Front spoke with two elderly Armenian women at Syria’s border crossing with Turkey in the northern Latakia province town of Kasab, aiming to ease a spate of international concern over the fate of Syria’s minorities in newly contested corner of northern...

Opposition activists again accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of using poison gas in Syria's civil war on Thursday, showing footage of an apparently unconscious man lying on a bed and being treated by medics. The alleged attack on the neighborhood of Jobar in the capital...