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Heavy fighting rocked the Gaza Strip on Monday, leaving dozens of Palestinians and five Israeli soldiers dead, even as the ...

A Gaza truce and hostage release deal is close and could be finalized in the final week of US President Joe Biden's term, ...

Nawaf Salam, Lebanon's new prime minister, is a leading international judge who won support for staying out of the political infighting that has paralysed the crisis-hit country in recent years.The 71 ...

The Turkish president took swipe at the LGBTQ+ community and at social media as he announced new measures to encourage child ...

The ICJ president is not a Hezbollah favorite, but has secured the backing of more than 70 parliamentarians to be Lebanon's ...

Despite its ambitions to relocate military assets from Syria to Libya following Assad's fall, Russia faces significant ...

Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday vowed to oppose any deal to end the Gaza war, while top ...

Despite supporting the armed opposition in the earlier parts of the Syrian civil war, Turkey and Saudi Arabia soon found ...

Ilana Gritzewsky was released from captivity more than a year ago, but with her partner and dozens of other Israeli hostages ...

A German-Iranian woman held in Iran for over four years has returned to Germany, her family said Monday, as a Frenchman ...

Dozens of Lebanese lawmakers endorsed international jurist Nawaf Salam on Monday to become the crisis-hit country's prime ...