Final results for Lebanese election show no clear majority alliance

Independent candidates made big strides, winning over a dozen parliament seats, while the Saudi-backed Lebanese Forces party gained 19 seats

Tensions rise between Lebanon's Shia and Christian parties as election results trickle out

A Hezbollah MP has warned the Lebanese Forces party against 'inciting a new civil war' after the LF threatened to form a government that excludes Shia parties

Iraq's Sadrist movement announces 'turn to the opposition' for one month

Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has failed multiple times to form a new government since winning last October's controversial elections

Lebanon votes in first polls since economic collapse

Lebanon's complex ‘confessional' power-sharing system sees the 128 parliament seats divided into two groups – 64 Muslims and 64 Christians

US to provide over $800 million in 'humanitarian aid' to Syria

In 2016, journalists discovered humanitarian aid hoarded in the warehouses of formerly rebel-held areas in Aleppo after its liberation by the Syrian Arab Army