BEIRUT: Lebanon’s intelligence chief has said he will visit Syria for talks with Syrian leaders about the fate of a US reporter who went missing in Syria a decade ago. Major General Abbas Ibrahim, said US officials want him to resume efforts to bring home Austin Tice and other Americans...

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — As Russia asserted progress in its goal of seizing the entirety of contested eastern Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin tried Saturday to shake European resolve to punish his country with sanctions and to keep supplying weapons that have supported Ukraine's defense....

The Assistant Minister of Higher Education for Scientific Affairs said that according to the data in the medical unions, more than 30 percent of the medical team has emigrated outside the war-torn country over the past 11 years.  Dr. Fadia Deeb revealed that the unprecedented shortage...

BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — To a threatening soundtrack of air raid sirens and booming artillery, civilians are fleeing towns and cities in eastern Ukraine as Russian forces advance. Negotiating narrow apartment building staircases, volunteers carry the elderly and infirm in their arms, in...