A suicide bomber blew himself up in a passenger van in Beirut’s southern district of Choueifat on Monday, killing at least two people, the state news agency reported. Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said the suicide bomber was trying to reached the Hezbollah...

    The Saudi preacher Abdullah bin Mohammed al-Moheisini has accused the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) of foiling his Initiative which called for an immediate ceasefire with Islamist rebels after one month of fighting. Al-Moheisini, based in...

Sporting a bushy beard and clutching a can of Coke, a castaway who says he survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean arrived in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro on Monday. A male nurse had to help the man previously identified as Jose Ivan down the gangplank of a police...

Iran's foreign minister held rare private talks with his U.S. counterpart on Sunday and said it would be a "disaster" if Tehran did not turn a provisional agreement to defuse a decade-old dispute over its nuclear program into a permanent deal. In a sign of the thawing climate between...