Iran's regional proxy Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in a shadow war in Syria. Could we be seeing the former retreating from an open conflict? Lebanon has been beset by consecutive crises that have some wondering if the state is on the edge of a precipitous failure....

The UK has rescued a British child from Syria as part of efforts to return unaccompanied minors stranded amid the fallout of the Islamic State conflict. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said repatriating the child was "the right thing to do". He said each case of orphans or...

Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line Wednesday with 105 mph (165) winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, swamping homes and trapping people in high water as it crept inland for what could be a long, slow and disastrous drenching across the Deep South....

The UN on Wednesday dispatched six trucks with humanitarian aid to northwestern Syria, where millions of people remain in need of assistance due to internal conflict. The trucks crossed over into Syria’s Idlib province from the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey’s southern Hatay province....

Turkish security forces fended off an attack in the Idlib de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, the country's National Defense Ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said in a statement that groups directed by the Bashar al-Assad regime but disguised as civilians approached several...

Explosions and a huge fire ripped through the port area of the Italian city of Ancona early Wednesday, destroying warehouses and lorries, but there were no casualties, firefighters said. The flames created vast mushroom clouds of smoke in the city on Italy's Adriatic coast. The...

A meeting between Turkish and Russian military delegations will be held at Turkey’s National Defense Ministry in the Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday. According to the ministry, during the meeting, developments in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, and the current situation on the...

Dubai's DP World said Wednesday it is partnering with an Israeli group to bid for one of Israel's two main ports and possibly open a direct shipping line between the two Middle East states. The announcement came a day after Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed an historic agreement to...

Almost six weeks after the Beirut port blast nearly blinded her in one eye, Kawthar Halabi has been unable to return to work as she is still having fragments of glass picked out of her flesh. After eight days in hospital, more than 50 stitches, eye surgery and with lingering trauma, the...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will be responsible for any 'consequences' resulting from their normalization of relations with Tehran's arch-foe Israel. The remarks came a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government sees a ‘way through’ the parliamentary maze for his bill that would break the Brexit divorce treaty as it talks with rebels in the Conservative Party, a minister said on Wednesday. Johnson’s Internal Market Bill, which the EU has demanded he...

Leading Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt said on Wednesday it appeared some did not understand that French-led efforts to get Lebanon out of crisis were the last chance to save the country. “It appears that some did not understand or did not want to understand that the French initiative...

Japan's parliament elected Yoshihide Suga as the country's new prime minister on Wednesday. Suga, a close confidante of outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on Monday was elected to lead the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He won the votes of 314 members of the parliament...

India surpassed the 5 million mark in coronavirus cases Wednesday as the country continues to battle the spread of the disease.    Health Ministry figures showed that 90,123 fresh cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of infections in the country to...

 Israel bombed Gaza Wednesday morning after rocket fire from the territory coinciding with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's signing of normalization deals with the UAE and Bahrain in Washington. At least two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip the previous evening, one of which...

A former gravedigger has given horrific testimony regarding war crimes in Syria to a German court, describing mass killing on a scale reminiscent of Nazi Germany. In his three hour testimony earlier this week, the gravedigger told the court in the German city of Koblenz that he spent...

Spain broke two grim milestones on Tuesday, with coronavirus cases surging to beyond 600,000 and related deaths passing the 30,000 mark. Over the past month, Spain has become the worst-affected European Union country in terms of confirmed cases. France, with the second-highest number of...

Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered Tuesday in front of the White House to protest the signing of historic accords between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. "This is a backstab to the Palestinian people," said Zeina Hutchison, head of a coalition of pro-Palestinian...

U.N.-backed investigators pointed Tuesday to signs that Syria’s government continues to perpetrate rape, torture and murder as the country’s nine-year conflict grinds on, while citing possible war crimes by a Turkey-backed coalition of rebel groups and calling on Ankara to do more to help...

Declaring “the dawn of a new Middle East,” President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed historic diplomatic pacts with Israel and two Gulf Arab nations that he hopes will lead to a new order in the Mideast and cast him as a peacemaker at the height of his reelection campaign. Hundreds of...