U.S. envoy Tom Barrack warns Lebanon risks becoming "Syria's beach resort" unless it disarms Hezbollah, linking aid to reform. He proposes monitored weapons depots but admits Lebanon's military is too ...

Dozens of Syrian Alawite women are missing— thought to have been abducted or worse. Motives behind the suspected abductions ...

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A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday that Azerbaijan's SOCAR could become a partner in Turkey's ...

Alparslan Bayraktar noted that the state oil company of Azerbaijan Socar may become Turkey's partner in this project ...

Thousands of Syrian refugees are set to return from Lebanon this week under the first, U.N.-backed plan providing financial ...

A core misconception about Israel’s policy since Oct. 7 is that the country has favored military action at the expense of ...

Police in Kenya say at least 11 people were killed in nationwide anti-government protests on Monday which coincided with the ...

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Swathes of forested area and farmland have burnt, some villages evacuated as fires raged, including near the Turkish border.

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