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

That region is home to many members of Assad’s minority Alawite sect. Associated Press writer Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed.

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government’s top hostage negotiator is in Beirut in hopes of collecting information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice, an American journalist missing in Syria for 12 ...

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 ...

The Syrian army withdrew from much of southern Syria yesterday, leaving more areas of the country, including two provincial capitals, under the control of opposition fighters, the military and an ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Robert Fernandez was 17 when his U.S. Navy ship was attacked by Japanese forces at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 ...