Iran and the United States appear to be easing tensions as both countries head into political volatile election years, with the threat of an armed conflict that seemed increasingly likely just months ago fading away. A weekend exchange of detainees between Iran and the United States brokered by diplomats indicated ...

President Michel Aoun on Monday expressed relief over the meeting that the International Support Group for Lebanon will hold Wednesday in Paris, thanking France for making the initiative in coordination with the U.N. Aoun’s remarks were voiced in a meeting with U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis. The president ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he wanted changes to the Ukrainian constitution to give a special status to the Donbass region after the first bilateral talks with his Ukrainian counterpart in Paris. Putin, who said the meeting in Paris had been useful, said he needed more points of ...

The Presidency on Sunday postponed the binding parliamentary consultations for naming a new PM from Monday, Dec. 9 to Monday, Dec. 16, after Dar al-Fatwa told the candidate Samir Khatib that there is Sunni consensus on re-nominating Saad Hariri for the post. “In light of the developments, at the desire ...

A vote on impeachment charges against Donald Trump could take place this week, according to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Jerrold Nadler said draft articles were already being prepared based on the evidence heard during the inquiry over the last months. However, a decision on the final charges will ...

 A strike that crippled public transport and closed schools across France entered a second day on Friday, with trade unions saying they planned to keep going until President Emmanuel Macron backs down from a planned reform of pensions. Rail workers voted to extend their strike through Friday, while labor unions ...

Cases doubled between between 2017 and 2018, reports say A global measles crisis caused more than 140,000 deaths last year, with most of them children under the age of five, figures suggest. A new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

President Michel Aoun called for formal consultations on Monday with lawmakers to designate a new prime minister, a statement from the presidency said on Wednesday. Aoun is required to designate the candidate with the greatest support among Lebanon’s 128 lawmakers. The prime minister must be a Sunni Muslim according to ...

International Rescue Committee report says Yemen war will cost international community as much as $29 billion if it continues   Even if the five-year war in Yemen were to end today, it would take two decades for the impoverished country’s children to reach the lesser level of malnutrition they suffered ...

NATO leaders set aside public insults ranging from “delinquent” to “brain dead” and “two-faced” on Wednesday, declaring at a 70th anniversary summit they would stand together against a common threat from Russia and prepare for China’s rise. Officials insisted the summit was a success: most notably, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ...