On Dec. 27, 2013, a car bomb in Beirut killed seven people, including Mohamad Chatah, Lebanon's former ambassador to the ...

The protests in Damascus broke out after footage circulated online of an artificial Christmas tree on fire in a mostly Christian town as masked men stand around it.

Ministers from Jordan and Qatar were among the first high-ranking Arab diplomats to meet with the leader of the rebel ...

The leader of the rebel coalition that swept to power last week said that fighters would be brought under the defense ...

Ahmed al-Shara said that fighters would be brought under the defense ministry’s authority. The announcement came as Prime ...

When hundreds of thousands of Lebanese fled Israeli bombing, they left behind the migrant women who worked for them. This is ...

Overnight strikes targeted former army positions, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor. Israel has said it aims to keep military equipment away from extremists.

Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times Israeli communities near ... More about Liam Stack Euan Ward is a reporter contributing to The Times from Beirut. More about Euan Ward Aaron Boxerman is a ...

Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times But the agreement does not say ... to go back to ruined communities in the Dahiya area outside Beirut and in the country’s south and east.

Image Large numbers of people left Beirut on Wednesday after the cease-fire began in Lebanon.Credit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times Bachir Khodr, the governor of Baalbek-Hermel, a Lebanese ...

By Euan Ward Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon President-elect ... of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. At the time, Mr. Boulos told The Times the meeting was “purely personal ...

Image Waving Hezbollah flags atop a car laden with speakers playing a Hezbollah victory song south of Beirut, Lebanon, on Wednesday.Credit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times “We’ve tried ...