Lebanon’s armed forces are to receive an additional $15 million in US aid. Washington is moving to bolster Lebanon’s armed forces as the country faces economic collapse and an increasingly intractable political crisis. The US on Friday announced an additional $15 million in aid to Lebanon’s military for 2021 following …

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Jerusalem, Ramallah, Cairo and Amman this week for discussions on maintaining the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed to the Middle East to build on a cease-fire that ended the worst fighting in years between …

The decision to withdraw the waiver to produce and sell oil in Syria has been presented by administration officials as a policy correction, not a shift. The Biden administration has decided to not extend a sanctions waiver granted by the Trump administration in April 2020 to a little-known American oil …