Lebanon’s parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday. The presidency, reserved for a Maronite Christian in Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system, has been vacant since Michel Aoun’s term ended in October 2022, with deeply divided factions unable to agree on...

Battles between Turkish-backed groups, supported by airstrikes, and Kurdish-led forces killed 37 people on Thursday in Syria’s northern Manbij region, a war monitor said. The latest reported fighting comes despite the United States saying Wednesday that it was working to address...

 A plane carrying 34 tons of humanitarian aid departed Sunday from the city of Misrata, Libya, bound for Syria, which is working to transition in the wake of the Assad regime’s fall. According to a statement from the Misrata city government, the aid plane took off from Misrata Airport...

As soon as the Assad regime fell, the details of its crimes against detainees began to emerge, through hundreds of prisons and mass graves that are found on a daily basis. Zaman al-Wasl newspaper received messages about the possibility of the presence of bodies of detainees in the morgues of...