Lebanon risks being taken over by regional powers unless Beirut acts to address Hezbollah’s weapons stockpiles, US special ...

Authorities say more than 15,000 hectares of forest were burned as scorching summer heat and left-over munitions fanned the ...

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Dozens of Syrian Alawite women are missing — thought to have been abducted or worse. Motives behind the suspected abductions are thought to be political and criminal.

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President Ahmad Al Shara and a Syrian Kurdish militia leader failed to meet as expected on Wednesday during a visit to Damascus by US special envoy Thomas Barrack, sources said. It was a setback to US ...

Syria's Latakia faces historic wildfires - 100km² burned, 5,000+ displaced. "Nothing left but ash" as flames destroy villages. Civil Defense battles fires amid landmines & drought. EU aid requested as ...