KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepali political party led by an ex-rapper is set for a landslide victory in the country’s first parliamentary election since Gen Z protests ousted the old leadership that ...

Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader. Meanwhile, oil surged past $100 a barrel as the economic fallout deepens. Follow for live updates ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese parliament extended its term by two years on Monday due to the U.S.-Israel war with Iran that has pushed the region into an escalating conflict and Israel stepping up its ...

Lebanon's armed resistance has reached a critical juncture, amid ongoing Israeli occupation and ceasefire violations ...

Amid a Syrian troop buildup and Israeli military operations, the border with Lebanon is becoming a source of friction amid ...

Earlier, a meeting of G7 finance ministers and the International Energy Agency ended apparently without agreement to release ...

The US-Israeli war on Iran, launched on Feb. 28, has set the Middle East alight, threatening millions of people’s lives and livelihoods as the violence spreads in widening arc stretching from central ...

A statue of St. Charbel overlooks a pond and surrounding lush scenery.(Photo: Courtesy photo) That same spirit lives today in ...

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Israeli fighter jets also bombarded the southern outskirts of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, as part of its escalating ...

Throughout the fighting, U.S. President Donald Trump has maintained that the campaign is succeeding and indicated that ...

Modern wars show how easily leaders meet rhetorical burden of justification and avoid strategic burden of ending them.