The top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader said he expected the Syrian army to soon recapture rebel-held Idlib province as well as eastern Syria, an area where U.S.-backed fighters hold swaths of territory. Iran is a close ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Iranian official,...

The European Union and the United States on Wednesday reaffirmed support for Lebanon after the resignation of its prime minister, striking a sharp contrast to Saudi Arabia, which accuses Beirut of declaring war because of the Shi‘ite group Hezbollah. Statements of support from EU...

Saudi Arabian authorities have made further arrests in an anti-corruption crackdown on the kingdom’s political and business elite, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Dozens of royal family members, officials and business executives have already been held in the purge...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army and its allied militias have surrounded and started to enter Albu Kamal, Daesh's (ISIS) last significant stronghold in Syria, the pro-Hezbollah al-Manar television reported on Wednesday. Daesh's "caliphate" has been all but destroyed over the past two years...