(Wall Street Journal)- President Donald Trump’s inclusion of Iraq in the temporary ban on foreign nationals entering the U.S. has alarmed American diplomats who warn it risks upending delicate military, political and business ties at a time when Islamic State is on the cusp of defeat in the...

Mixed messages from Washington have left Syrian Christians confused about the effect of U.S. restrictions on refugees and travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, with some seeing hope fading away. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that put a four-month...

 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday extended his deadly drug war until the last day of his term in 2022, but conceded the police force acting as his frontline troops was "corrupt to the core". Thousands of people have died in the crackdown that began when Duterte took office...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  A Lebanese hospital on Sunday refused to hand over a body of Syrian refugee man died of cancer to his wife, saying $3500 must be paid to free the 'captive body', activists said. Ein Wazin hospital in the mountainous Chouf district refused to hand over the body of...