Cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon escalated into a full-scale war in September 2024. Despite a November ceasefire, Israeli forces have conducted near-daily attacks in ...

Former Beirut hostage Sir Terry Waite has been recalling how news from the BBC World Service was tapped out in code on a wall ...

Israeli soldiers kidnapped two Syrian agricultural workers when they raided houses in a southern Lebanon border area at dawn on Wednesday, as US special envoy Tom Barrack wrapped up a high-stakes ...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun arrived in Bahrain on Tuesday for a two-day state visit, the latest stop in Beirut’s push to repair and deepen ties with Gulf Arab states. Mr Aoun, accompanied by ...

A fact-finding committee presented findings on a wave of sectarian killings earlier this year. Human rights experts said the ...

US envoy Thomas Barrack’s talks in Lebanon have yielded no breakthrough on the implementation of a troubled ceasefire agreed ...

US Special Envoy to Syria Ambassador Thomas J. Barrack has been under a spotlight in the last two weeks as US policy ...

Syria's new government sent troops to quell fighting between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Muslim tribes. Then Israel intervened, bombing Damascus.

The clashes have increased skepticism in some communities about the ability of Syria's new leaders to assert control.

Barrack suggested that Israel would prefer to see Syria fragmented and divided rather than a strong central state in control ...

Washington cannot "compel" Israel to do anything, U.S. special envoy Thomas Barrack said in Beirut on Monday, in response to ...

Barrack stressed Hezbollah disarmament is an internal issue amid a meeting with leaders in Beirut, where Lebanon’s ceasefire pledges were also discussed.