Tamar al-Jadou beams with joy from his hospital bed, leaving behind months of plight behind him. It took months and a lot of people for a one-year-old Syrian boy to reach this stage in his short life, though he is unaware of it. Al-Jadou is the son of a Syrian family that settled in the...

A convoy of tanker trucks carrying Iranian diesel crossed the border from Syria into Lebanon early Thursday, a delivery organized by the militant Hezbollah group to ease crippling fuel shortages in the crisis-hit country. The delivery violates U.S. sanctions imposed on Tehran after former...

ATLIT, Israel (AP) — Israel’s navy has stepped up its activities in the Red Sea “exponentially” in the face of growing Iranian threats to Israeli shipping, the country’s just-retired navy commander said in an interview. Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit stopped short of confirming a series of...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A month after the fall of Kabul, the world is still wrestling with how to help Afghanistan’s impoverished people without propping up their Taliban leaders — a question that grows more urgent by the day. With the Afghan government severed from the...