A former Syrian government official has been charged with torture in the United States, authorities said on Thursday.
Samir Ousman Alsheikh, who oversaw the Damascus Central Prison from 2005 and 2008, was charged by a federal grand jury with several (...)
Brimming with excitement, Syrians poured into Ummayed Square in the heart of Damascus on Sunday to celebrate the fall of Bashar Assad's government.
The square, home to the Ministry of Defense building, became a focal point for jubilant crowds (...)
BEIRUT — The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has dispatched an airlift of 27 aircraft carrying essential relief supplies to Lebanon.
The shipments include food, shelter materials, medical supplies, baby formula, personal (...)
Israel struck targets in Lebanon on Monday evening after vowing to retaliate for an attack by Hezbollah on a military post, with both sides accusing each other of violating last week's ceasefire.
At least 11 people, including a security officer, (...)
International reactions continued on Wednesday as long-displaced residents of southern Lebanon began their return home after the ceasefire deal between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group.
Thousands of displaced people poured back into the (...)
A ceasefire following more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon has come into effect.
It began at 04:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Wednesday, putting at least a temporary end to nearly 14 months of fighting between Israel (...)
With a temporary ceasefire deal between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah apparently holding, residents of southern Lebanon are streaming back to their homes despite warnings from the Israeli and Lebanese militaries that they avoid (...)
The Lebanese and Israeli governments have accepted a US proposal to end the prolonged conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday.
The agreement, set to take effect Wednesday at 4 a.m. local time (0200 GMT), (...)
A ceasefire has been agreed to end 13 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, US President Joe Biden has announced. "Effective at 04:00 tomorrow local time (02:00 GMT on Wednesday), the fighting across the Lebanese-Israeli border (...)
The Israeli cabinet will vote on a ceasefire deal in Lebanon on Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesperson told CNN, after a source familiar with the matter said the Israeli prime minister had approved the plan "in principle."
Netanyahu signaled his (...)
The EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell has said UN peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon have the "strong support" of the bloc after meeting their commander in Beirut.
Borrell held talks with UNFIL's Head of Mission and Force Commander (...)
A ceasefire deal between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is "very close," a regional source told CNN on Sunday, even as an uptick in Israeli attacks saw the death toll in Lebanon since mid-September pass a grim milestone.
More than (...)
Israel's military says around 250 rockets have been fired by Hezbollah across the border from Lebanon, marking one of the heaviest bombardments of Israel since fighting intensified in September.
Several people were injured and buildings damaged in (...)
Israeli drones targeted paramedics in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing two and injuring four others, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
The ministry reported that the first strike occurred as a rescue team was (...)
An Israeli airstrike early Saturday targeted senior Hezbollah leader Mohammed Haider in the Basta area of central Beirut, according to Israel's Public Broadcasting Corporation (KAN).
KAN reported that the strike was an assassination attempt on (...)
The death toll from an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut early Saturday has risen to 11, with 23 others injured, according to the Lebanese Civil Defense Service.
A statement from Civil Defense confirmed that 11 bodies were pulled from the rubble (...)
Efforts for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah have intensified, with Lebanon's government expected to respond to a draft deal presented by the US, amid an escalation of Israel's air attacks across the country.
The strikes in the past week, (...)
Hezbollah's media chief Mohammed Afif has been killed in an Israeli strike in central Beirut, the Lebanese militant group has confirmed.
A strike hit the headquarters of the Baath political party in the densely populated Ras al-Naba neighborhood on (...)
Israeli warplanes launched a series of heavy airstrikes on Haret Hreik, a neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburb, early Saturday, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
The Israeli army issued evacuation orders to residents of buildings in (...)
An Israeli air strike on an emergency response center in north-eastern Lebanon on Thursday killed at least 15 rescue workers, officials say, in one of the deadliest attacks of its kind involving Lebanese emergency responders in the war.
The strike (...)
Israel's military ground operation in southern Lebanon has been expanded, the country's defense minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday.
Katz did not clarify when the decision to expand operations was taken and did not offer any details on what the (...)
Israeli airstrikes on several towns in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon on Saturday killed 12 paramedics and civil defense volunteers, while injuring three others.
The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that warplanes targeted the town of Deir (...)
For over two millennia, the Roman temples at Baalbek in eastern Lebanon have stood as some of the finest examples of Roman architecture anywhere in the world.
On Wednesday, a car park just meters away from the Unesco World Heritage site was hit by (...)
At the wheel of an ambulance, Samir El Chekieh drives with sirens wailing to the latest Israeli air strike in El Karak in the Bekaa Valley, eastern Lebanon.
The 32-year-old firefighter and paramedic with the Lebanese Civil Defense Force (CDF) only (...)
Two separate Hezbollah rocket attacks have killed seven people in northern Israel, authorities say — the deadliest day of such strikes in months.
An Israeli farmer and four foreign agricultural workers were killed when rockets landed near Metula, a (...)
