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Shimon Peres, an Israeli statesman who helped build his country into a nuclear-armed regional military power, shared a Nobel Peace Prize for laying out a short-lived framework for peace with the Palestinians and more recently defended Israel’s controversial military actions in the Gaza Strip and […]

NNA – “Change and Reform” bloc leader, Deputy Michel Aoun chaired on Tuesday the bloc’s weekly meeting in Rabyieh. FPM’s head, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Jebran Bassil said following the meeting “when we defend the National Pact, we defend all Lebanese – Christians and Muslims.” […]

The head of the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah says he considers the radical ideology of Wahhabism to be even more pernicious than the Israeli regime. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, made the remark during his annual meeting with Muslim eulogists and […]

Saudi warplanes hit the positions of the friendly forces in Central Yemen and killed a large number of militants loyal to fugitive former President Mansour Hadi, in what has come to be known as “routine” shooting and bombing of friendly troops by the Saudi air […]

Threatened by Islamic extremism, Christian and Jewish groups in Turkey are growing more fearful amid increasing terror attacks and the government’s state of emergency following a failed coup attempt, representatives of the minority communities told VOA. Christian and Jews represent about two-tenths of one percent […]

With the abrupt collapse of a cease-fire in Syria last week, international migration officials expect no letup in a wave of migration out of the Middle East that has set off the worst global migrant crisis in 70 years. The five-year conflict in Syria has […]

The U.N. envoy for Libya said Tuesday that armed groups were carrying out “grave human rights abuses with impunity,” and he warned the international community against breaking the arms embargo. Martin Kobler said in Geneva that such abuses needed to be urgently addressed, and that […]

Syrian troops have seized a central neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo from rebel forces, according to reports on state television and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group. After capturing the neighborhood of Farafra, government forces continued to engage rebel troops […]

The United States is calling for the immediate release any U.S. Citizen detained by the Houthi-controlled National Security Bureau in Yemen. Such detentions are “unacceptable” and put in jeopardy any Houthi efforts to establish that they are “credible and responsible interlocutors,” the U.S. State Department […]