BEIRUT- The UN Palestinian refugee agency on Tuesday resumed food distribution in the besieged Yarmuk camp in Damascus after a two-week halt. UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said aid workers...

BENGHAZI- A car bomb Monday targeting a military academy in Libya's restive eastern city of Benghazi killed at least seven soldiers and wounded 12, military and hospital sources said. Benghazi,...

WASHINGTON, Shaun Tandon- Joseph Stalin's signature was bold and forceful, Harry Truman's was unaffected and readily legible, while Winston Churchill's was formal and unflappable. The autographs of...

BAALBEK- Four rockets fired from Syria hit the Hezbollah-dominated Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon Monday, wounding one person, the Lebanese army said. Hezbollah, a powerful Lebanese Shiite movement,...

JERUSALEM- Hundreds of young Palestinians gathered outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City with books on Sunday to encourage people to read more, organisers and police said. "We had this idea to...

ROME, Ella Ide- Italians in Venice and its surrounding region are voting this week on whether to break away from rest of the country and form their own state. The online vote, organised by local...

YABRUD, Sammy Ketz- Syria's army and Lebanon's Hezbollah seized full control of rebel bastion Yabrud on Sunday, dealing the opposition a strategic blow in the Qalamoun region along the Lebanese...

BAALBEK- A suicide car bomb attack killed four people late Sunday in an area dominated by the powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah near the Syrian border, a Lebanese security source told AFP. The...

AMMAN- King Abdullah II on Sunday visited the family of a Jordanian judge killed by Israeli soldiers to offer his condolences, the palace said on Twitter. A picture on Twitter showed the king hugging...