The unusually direct U.S. intervention in Lebanon's sectarian politics appears aimed at capitalizing on shifts in the power balance in Lebanon and the wider Middle East, with Iran-backed Hezbollah ...

The notorious Saydnaya prison complex 'is pretty much emptied of any documents', a UN official says — Sameer AL-DOUMY Despite concerns about the destruction of documents and other indications of ...

"She was a national figure. That is why people did not just call her Umm Kulthum -- they called her El-Set (The Lady)," she told AFP. This year, her story is set to return to the big screen in a new ...

If the walls of the Atifet Apartment block could talk, they’d tell stories of art, glamour and reinvention. Lale Belkis, Turkey’s first model and a cultural icon of the sixties and seventies, has once ...

Sudan's paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, in a rare video address on Friday, acknowledged setbacks in the capital Khartoum but vowed to expel the army from the city again. The war since ...

ICRC buses carrying Palestinian prisoners released by Israel driving through the town of Beitunia near Ramallah — Zain JAAFAR The Red Cross, accused of not doing enough to help hostages in Gaza or ...

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza near the family home of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Thursday in anticipation of two Israeli hostages being released. Onlookers ...

The Palestinian health ministry said on Wednesday that Israeli forces killed two people in separate overnight raids in the occupied West Bank, including one in Jenin, where the Israeli military is ...

The United Nations said Thursday that its aid agency UNRWA would continue working in all Palestinian territories, including east Jerusalem, even as Israel cut ties with the organisation. After Israel ...

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been making the arduous journey back to north Gaza from the displaced persons' camps of the south since Israel opened a passage on Monday. — Omar AL-QATTAA ...

Israel, backed by Washington, will cease contact with the UN's Palestinian humanitarian relief agency UNRWA and any body acting on its behalf, its UN envoy said Tuesday, drawing condemnation from aid ...

has been exacerbated by decades of water diversions from the sea's main source -- the Jordan River -- as well as various tributaries that begin in Lebanon and Syria. The water is also being pumped out ...