Lebanon's foreign minister announced his resignation Monday in protest at the government's mishandling of the worst economic crisis in decades that has forced Beirut to ask for IMF support. "I have decided to resign today as foreign minister," Nassif Hitti said in a statement seen by AFP,...

Dr Firass Abiad was a little-known Beirut hospital director until the coronavirus pandemic propelled him into the spotlight and restored at least some faith in Lebanon's much-maligned public sector. At a time when the country has also been mired in its deepest economic crisis in decades and...

An Islamic State group attack on a prison in eastern Afghanistan holding hundreds of its members raged Monday after killing at least 21 people in fighting overnight, a local official said. That's according to Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province. He says the...

The death of Rafic Hariri is to many Lebanese what the JFK assassination was to Americans four decades earlier -- everybody remembers what they were doing when the news broke. On Valentine's Day 2005, the former prime minister who embodied the reconstruction of the country after its...