The election marks the first test of Lebanon's power balance since Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah emerged badly pummelled from last year's war with Israel, and since its Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad was topp ...

The Secretary of the Navy was in Portsmouth Wednesday to announce the name of a future medical ship. The ship, which is set to be built, will be known as USNS Portsmouth. It is one of three ...

Lebanon’s parliament is set to vote to elect a president to fill a more than an two-year-long presidential vacuum ...

Three Palestinians were killed, including two children, in an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

For weeks, Iranian officials have downplayed the fall of their ally in Syria. But an important general has offered a ...

Lebanon's parliament looks set to elect army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, three senior political sources said ...

Despite pressure by the United States and others to elect a president in order to receive financial support, a consensus ...

Head of the Marada Movement Suleiman Franjieh announced on Wednesday that he was withdrawing from Lebanon’s presidential ...

The Presidency is reserved for a Maronite Christian in the country's sectarian power-sharing system and has been vacant since ...

The Syrian shrine of Sayedah Zainab drew Iran-backed militiamen from throughout the region. With Assad's fall, they've fled, ...