Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said Sunday his group would not surrender or lay down its weapons in response to Israeli threats, despite pressure on the Lebanese militants to disarm. “This threat will not make us accept surrender,” Qassem said in a televised speech to thousands of his...

Turkey sent two firefighting aircraft Saturday to help battle wildfires in neighboring Syria as Turkish firefighters battled a blaze on their side of the border and one person was reported dead in the country’s west. Eleven fire trucks and water support vehicles were also dispatched to...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was sending a team to Qatar Sunday for talks on a truce and hostage release in Gaza, after Hamas said it was ready to start negotiations “immediately.” But Netanyahu, who is due to meet with President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday,...

Jordanian Interior Minister Mazen Faraya said that 97,000 Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned from Jordan to their country since the beginning of this year. Faraya added, in statements he made on Saturday, as reported by Al Mamlaka TV, that the Jaber border crossing witnessed the largest...