New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks around the world rang in 2025, as more than a million revelers crowded into New ...

On Dec. 27, 2013, a car bomb in Beirut killed seven people, including Mohamad Chatah, Lebanon's former ambassador to the ...

Hilary Nangle A big reason visitors come to Bar Harbor in the first place is that the town is the gateway to Acadia National Park. The park wraps around Bar Harbor, and even some of its smaller ...

Reeling from successive crises, the people of Sidon worry that the next one could come in the form of Israeli bombs. Lebanon’s FIBA World Cup journey is about much more than basketball ...

Seventy-nine Pakistani pilgrims have been evacuated to Beirut while the Syrian rebels now in power have appointed Mohammed al-Bashir as head of a transitional government that will be in place ...

Roger Carstens, the chief U.S. hostage negotiator, has landed in Beirut to coordinate efforts to find Austin Tice, an American freelance journalist abducted in Syria a dozen years ago.

6, 2024, during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s top hostage negotiator is in Beirut in hopes of ...

The Syrian government fell early yesterday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the al-Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital ...

Marseilles-based CMA CGM has deep roots with Syria. Lebanese-born Jacques R. Saadé founded CMA, or Compagnie maritime d’affrètement, in 1978, and the ocean carrier’s first service linked Marseilles, ...

Some Syrians in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, expressed joy following the news that the Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family. (AP video by ...

Syrians from Beirut to Berlin are celebrating the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime as rebel forced seize Damascus. Assad’s regime fell after Syrian rebels launched a lightning-fast ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Ira “Ike” Schab, a 104-year-old Pearl Harbor attack survivor, was so determined to stand and salute during a remembrance ceremony honoring those killed in the ...