Floods swept through major streets in the Lebanese capital Beirut and its surrounding areas Sunday, causing the closure of a key road leading to Rafic Hariri International Airport due to heavy rainfall. Rainwater flooded several roads in Beirut, including the airport tunnel, while firefighting...

Gaza war mediator Qatar on Tuesday condemned the Israeli parliament’s decision to ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in Israel, the Gulf emirate’s foreign ministry said. Israeli lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly voted to ban the agency, UNRWA, from working in...

Lebanon said Monday it had submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council over an Israeli strike last week that killed three journalists in the country’s south. The strike early Friday hit a complex in the Druze-majority town of Hasbaya in south Lebanon where more than a...

The first Bangladeshis airlifted home after fleeing Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon described the constant fear of living in a city rocked by explosions. Late Monday the first 54 of some 1,800 Bangladeshis wanting to escape the troubled Mediterranean nation flew back to Dhaka on a...