LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization said there was a 7% rise in new coronavirus cases across Europe last week, the only region in the world where cases increased. In its weekly assessment of the pandemic released late Tuesday, the U.N. health agency said there were about 2.7...

He was only a year old when his panicked father picked him up and they fled with his mother from the gunfire rattling their neighborhood. It was the day Lebanon’s civil war started 46 years ago. His family’s apartment building in Beirut was on the frontline. Now 47, Bahij Dana did the...

Shelling by the Syrian regime army killed 13 people Wednesday in the northwestern region of Idlib controlled by rebels, a war monitor and local activists reported. Rockets struck a busy area of the town of Ariha, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Among the...

 Two roadside bombs exploded near a bus carrying troops during the morning rush hour in the Syrian capital early Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding others, state TV reported. The attack was the deadliest in Damascus in years, and a rare event since regime forces captured suburbs...