While the role of foreign powers and corrupt politicians are well known, the oligarchy has received little attention outside ...

Lebanon's newly elected president, Joseph Aoun, said Thursday that "a new phase" has started for the war-ravaged country and ...

The annual travel rush for China's Lunar New Year celebrations officially began on Tuesday, with many taking a mental break ...

Newly elected Lebanese president Joseph Aoun (C) stands next to the Parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, as he delivers a speech Thursday. Photo by Rahim Rhéa/UPI BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 9 (UPI ...

Kamala Harris loses, a baseball icon dies, new mayors for Oakland and San Francisco, and scandal rocks a Dublin prison ...

"The Middle East is being consumed by many fires, but today, there is a flame of hope in Syria, and that flame must not be extinguished," he said. 20:08 (IST) Dec 19 Thousands protest in northeast ...

Syria News Live Updates: The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. after the 1973 Mideast war. A U.N. force of about 1,100 troops had patrolled ...

The shaking started just before dawn, right beneath the ancient Iranian city of Bam. Within moments, the magnitude 6.6 earthquake had torn the city apart. Bam was an archaeological treasure in a ...

US embassy in Damascus advises Americans to leave Syria as it issues warning about armed conflict and ‘terrorism throughout the country’ ...

It has been reported that the explosion was so large that it measured 3.0 on earthquake sensors ... captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it, though the international ...