Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani announced on Saturday that he will make his first official visit to China in early November on an invitation extended by Beijing. “We have redefined our relationship with China, which had politically supported the former regime of Bashar al-Assad and...

There was no mistaking the reek of death that rose along the Syrian desert highway four nights a week for nearly two years. It was the smell of thousands of bodies being trucked from one mass grave to another, secret location. Drivers were forbidden to leave their cabs. Mechanics and...

Gaza ’s civil defense agency said that Israeli forces killed nine members of a single Palestinian family when they fired on a bus Friday, after the military confirmed it had targeted a vehicle that crossed the so-called “yellow line.” “Civil defense crews were able to recover nine...

A Lebanese judge on Friday ordered the release of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of longtime Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, on bail after nearly a decade of pre-trial detention in Lebanon, a judicial official said. After questioning Gaddafi, the judge ordered his release “on $11 million bail and...