The appointment of Nawaf Salam, the president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as prime minister of Lebanon has ...

Saudi Arabia on Sunday called for the lifting of sanctions on Syria after meetings with top diplomats from the Middle East ...

Top diplomats from the Middle East and Europe arrived in the Saudi capital on Sunday to discuss Syria, as world powers push ...

A former media chief from Syria have pretty recently revealed shocking details that how Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...

Lebanese political heavyweights held talks Wednesday a day ahead of a parliamentary session to elect a president, but even ...

Lebanese lawmakers are due to meet on Thursday to elect a president, but analysts say that even with key political player ...

It is said that behind every great man is a woman - and as it happens, the same goes for dictators. Syria's deposed tyrant Bashar al-Assad fled to friendly Moscow after his regime was toppled by ...

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A Lebanese security source said Saturday that Bashar al-Assad's uncle, Rifaat al-Assad, left the country via Beirut airport around a week ago, after rebels overthrew his nephew. The source said ...

Libya Al-Ahrar TV channel said that it obtained exclusive documents revealing that Haftar established a special project for drones in cooperation with the Bashar Al-Assad regime in Syria. One of the ...

BEIRUT - Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to ...