Yasmina El Habbal long dreamed of giving birth to a daughter and planned to name her Ghalia, Arabic for "precious." She never got married, and never did. But in an Egyptian orphanage at age 40, she finally found her Ghalia: a fussy baby girl with large brown eyes who promptly fell asleep in...

Security forces have arrested a number of civilians in the Syrian government stronghold of Latakia after rare criticism of rampant poverty and corruption in President Bashar al-Assad's administration. Among those arrested in the province - the birthplace of Assad and home to members of...

An Iranian official identified as an undercover agent was convicted Thursday of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against an exiled Iranian opposition group in France in 2018 and sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Belgian court, which rejected his claim of diplomatic immunity....

Days after a massive explosion ripped through Beirut’s port and disfigured the Lebanese capital, family members of some of the 211 people killed in the blast demanded an international probe. It was a swift vote of no confidence in the authorities’ ability to investigate one of the...