Claudette Halabi cried out from beneath the rubble of her house for an hour before she died. The neighbors couldn't save her. "We kept hearing the screams. I heard her voice. But we couldn't do anything. It still hurts," said Johnny Khawand, near the remains of her Beirut building. The...

Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza rallied Friday against Israel's agreement with the United Arab Emirates. Under the agreement brokered by US President Donald Trump, Israel and the UAE will normalise diplomatic ties, brought together by a confluence of interests against Iran. A...

The UN Security Council started voting Thursday evening on a US resolution that would indefinitely extend the UN arms embargo on Iran, a measure that faces strong opposition from Russia and China and is almost certain to be defeated. The results of the email voting because of the COVID-19...

Afghan authorities on Friday said they had started to release 400 Taliban prisoners, the final hurdle in long-delayed peace talks between the two warring sides, even as President Ashraf Ghani warned they were a "danger to the world". The Afghan government and the Taliban are set to meet...