Month: June 2021

NATO’s foreign and defense ministers meet Tuesday to lay the groundwork for the military alliance’s first summit with U.S President Joe Biden

PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s party on Tuesday challenged the legality of a bid by a rival rightist to head a new Israeli government.

Yemen’s Huthi rebels, who control most of the country’s north including the capital Sanaa, have been blocking international efforts to supply Covid vaccines

Israel’s defense minister on Monday distanced himself from comments made by his military chief after Israel bombed a Gaza Strip high-rise housing an Associated Press office and other news outlets, … Read More

A decade of war in Syria has left nearly half a million people dead, a war monitor said Tuesday, in a new toll that includes 100,000 recently confirmed deaths.

A smashed goldfish bowl, panicked birds in a cage, scores of animals needing treatment.

The Lebanese pound retreated on the black market Tuesday, trading at LL12,900 against the dollar, as politicians struggled to resolve a government crisis that has paralyzed the troubled country.

Lebanon’s economic collapse is likely to rank among the the world’s worst financial crises since the mid-19th century, the World Bank said in a damning report released Tuesday.