BEIRUT (AP) — One of Lebanon’s largest factories making the highly addictive amphetamine Captagon has been discovered and destroyed as part of rare security cooperation between intelligence agencies ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Shiite Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith, while paying ...

TEHRAN - The Iraqi parliamentary elections, held under highly sensitive circumstances, have been described by the Javan ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents who seized a Lebanese border town this month planned to turn Lebanon into another Iraq by unleashing sectarian war between Sunnis and Shi'ites that would ...

BEIRUT — Shiite Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith, while paying tribute ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- It started gradually -- an assassination, then a bus ambush. Slowly, gunmen took to the streets and sporadic fighting erupted. Then the tit-for-tat kidnappings broke out, and the ...

The week's news highlights include U.S. generals' view that Iraq is headed for civil war; more fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, including a strike on Canna, Lebanon, that killed more than two ...

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan says the U.S. is "trapped in Iraq." And tensions in Lebanon rise after the assassination of an anti-Syrian politician. Policy debates are posing few useful solutions.