Turkey on Thursday congratulated new President Joseph Aoun and said it hoped the new government in Beirut "will contribute to the stability of Lebanon". The foreign ministry said in a brief ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called Thursday for cooperation between Syria's new authorities, host ...

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet ...

The prime minister must be a Sunni Muslim according to Lebanon's sectarian power-sharing system ... give them graves 3:36 PM ...

SANLIURFA, Turkey, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Turkey is ready to supply electricity to Syria and Lebanon and a team of government officials is already in Syria working on how to resolve its energy issues ...

The United Arab Emirates has taken custody of Egyptian poet and dissident Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi amid a campaign by human rights activists and experts to prevent his extradition to the Gulf ...

There have also been ongoing tensions and clashes in northeastern Syria between Kurdish-led forces and armed groups backed by Turkey. Many Kurds have viewed the new order in Damascus, which ...

Turkey is prepared to export electricity to Lebanon and Syria to assist them in addressing power shortages, Turkey’s energy minister said, adding that a Turkish delegation was already in Damascus to ...

Yet Lebanon faces truly daunting problems ... and largely ethnically or religiously homogeneous states like Israel, Turkey and Iran surrounding the culturally varied and fractured Arab Levant.

(AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy) BEIRUT — Syria’s embassy in Lebanon suspended consular services ... led forces and armed groups backed by Turkey. Many Kurds have viewed the new order in Damascus ...