Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad, is expected to be a focus of questions ...

NPR's Emily Feng and Jawad Rizkallah met some of them across the Syrian border in Lebanon, where many are ... which former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his family also belong to and who ...

Najib Mikati’s visit, the first in 15 years, comes amid pressure in Lebanon to release Islamists imprisoned during the civil ...

Lebanon’s parliament has elected army commander ... in northern Lebanon with close ties to former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, announced on Wednesday he had withdrawn from the race and ...

The move fills the vacant presidency with a general who enjoys US approval and showing that Hezbollah's influence in the ...

Lebanese lawmakers are due to meet on Thursday to elect a president, but analysts say that even with key political player Hezbollah weakened by war, white smoke is not guaranteed.But, according to ...

Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long ...

The officials said that "many members" of the Assad family had travelled to Dubai from Beirut and others had stayed in Lebanon since ... as the model for Bashar al-Assad's later crackdown on ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in ... Dubai from Beirut and others had stayed in Lebanon since Assad was toppled on Dec. 8.

BEIRUT (AP) — The wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad ... arrest of Jamil al-Hassan, the former director of Syrian intelligence under Assad. Lebanon's caretaker ...