BEIRUT: Lebanon is facing a "financial siege" imposed by international powers and its priority is staving off strife caused by the country's...
BEIRUT: Lebanon looks set to announce Saturday it cannot make upcoming dollar bond payments and wants to restructure $31 billion of foreign currency debt,...
ANKARA: Turkey plans to push Syrian government forces away from its military observation posts in northwest Syria's Idlib region this week, President...
BEIRUT: Bank Audi is considering selling its Egyptian subsidiary after receiving interest from lenders, its chief financial officer told Reuters, indicating a...
BEIRUT: Lebanese banks are liquid but operating in a very strong “wave of uncertainty,” the banking association head said, describing temporary...
BEIRUT: Lebanese leaders appear to be "on another planet" with no sign of a new government despite an economic crisis, one of the country's main...
BEIRUT: Saad Hariri’s third term as prime minister of Lebanon was mired in political rivalries that obstructed reforms needed to save the country from...
BEIRUT: Lebanon has been swept by unprecedented protests against a political class accused of plundering state resources for personal gain, bringing turmoil...
BEIRUT: Lebanon has high chances of making an offshore energy discovery once drilling gets underway from November or December and its second licensing round...
BEIRUT/LONDON: Heavily indebted Lebanon has passed a budget seen as a “first step” toward fixing its public finances, but still has much to do to...
BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syrian President Bashar Assad’s assault in the northwest has been met with a painful rebel counterpunch that underlines Turkish resolve to...
BEIRUT: U.S. President Donald Trump's vision for Mideast peace has hit a raw nerve in Lebanon, reviving fears of any plan that would permanently settle...
BEIRUT: Eight years since Syria began its descent into war, many of President Bashar Assad’s enemies have been defeated and the bulk of the country is...
ISTANBUL/BEIRUT: Brothers Abu Eliyas and Abu Yousef have fought at completely opposite ends of the insurgency against Syrian President Bashar Assad. One is a...
BEIRUT: President Bashar Assad’s path to a final victory in the war in Syria is strewn with diplomatic land mines that will complicate his attempt to...
BEIRUT: Lebanon must seek a deal with Syria so Lebanese exporters can reach wider Middle East markets via the Syrian border with Jordan now that Damascus has...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah is helping to lead a Russian-backed offensive in southern Syria, pro-Damascus sources said, exposing the limits of U.S. policy that hopes...
BEIRUT: Syria’s war is reaching a point where President Bashar Assad will not be able to win back much more territory without risking conflicts with foreign...
ALEPPO, Syria/ BEIRUT: Syria’s U.S.-backed Kurds are getting indirect help from an unlikely source in their war against Turkey in the northwestern region of...
BEIRUT: With Daesh (ISIS) near defeat in Syria, Damascus is setting its sights on territory held by Kurdish-led forces including eastern oil fields, risking a...
BEIRUT: Syrian and Iraqi forces closing in on the last scraps of the Daesh (ISIS) caliphate straddling the remote border area between the two countries have...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Central Bank has the foreign-currency reserves it needs to keep the pound stable against the U.S. dollar at its pegged rate for the...
RAQQA, Syria/BEIRUT: Kurdish groups who led the fight against Daesh (ISIS) in its former capital Raqqa must navigate a complex peace to avoid ethnic tension...
ISTANBUL/BEIRUT: Turkey is luring militants away from the militant alliance that controls Syria’s northwestern Idlib province as a step toward implementing a...
BEIRUT: U.S.-backed Syrian militias will not let government forces cross the Euphrates River in their bid to recover eastern Syria, setting a red line for...