BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Tuesday Israel had violated his country’s sovereignty with a “dangerous military escalation” along the Israeli-Lebanese frontier on Monday, and called
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U.S. says Russia is working with Syria's Assad to move militia to Libya
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States does not support the offensive of Libya’s eastern-based military leader Khalifa Haftar against Tripoli and believes Russia is working with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Syrian tycoon decries 'inhumane' security forces in unprecedented criticism
AMMAN (Reuters) – Sanctions-hit Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf said on Sunday that security forces were arresting employees at his companies “in an inhumane way” amid pressure on him to step
Bomb blast kills 40 people in Syrian town of Afrin, Turkey says
ANKARA (Reuters) – At least 40 civilians were killed, including 11 children, when a bomb detonated in the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Tuesday, the Turkish Defence Ministry said,
Pompeo hopes China will reconsider move against U.S. journalists
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday he regretted China’s decision to rescind the press credentials of more U.S. journalists and hoped Beijing would reconsider,
Berlin to take up to 100 children from Greek refugee camps
BERLIN (Reuters) – Berlin will take in 80 to 100 children from Greek refugee camps, an official in the German capital said on Tuesday, as concern mounts about migrants amassing
Teargas fired on Greek-Turkish border as migrant tensions flare
KASTANIES, Greece (Reuters) – Teargas and smoke bombs clouded a Greek-Turkish land border on Saturday in a fresh flare-up in tensions over migrants seeking access to European Union territory. A
Russia's Putin, Syria's Assad discuss Idlib ceasefire: Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a phone call on Friday that agreements reached between Russia and Turkey at recent talks would stabilize
More money for migrants in Turkey if no more threats, EU says
ZAGREB/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union countries are willing to provide more money for migrants holed up in Turkey but Ankara must not use them as a bargaining tool, EU officials
Greece plans to deport migrants who arrived after March 1
KASTANIES/LESBOS (Reuters) – Greece will transfer migrants who arrived on its territory illegally after March 1 to the northern city of Serres and plans to deport back to their own