
Palestinian militant group Hamas has released a video appearing to show an Israeli citizen being held captive in the Gaza Strip.
The clip appears to show Hisham al-Sayed lying in a bed looking dazed and wearing an oxygen mask — the first sighting of him since 2015.
Hamas alleges that…

Speaking at the camp near a small hill town 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Albania’s capital, Tirana, Pence harshly denounced Tehran for brutality, poverty and corruption.
Pence said the election of President Ebrahim Raisi, whom he called “a brutal mass murderer responsible for the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political…

Najib Mikati, chosen Thursday to remain as Lebanese prime minister, faces the difficult task of forming a new government and slowing the country’s collapse until the election of a new president in October, analysts said.
Lebanon has been holding talks with the IMF, but only in April reached a staff-level…
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman held talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah II at Al Husseiniya Palace in Amman, during which the Jordanian King stressed the pivotal role of Saudi Arabia, led by King Salman bin Abdulaziz, in supporting the region’s causes.
During the visit, the two leaders will…

Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday said Lebanon was ready to expel Syrian refugees living in the country if the international community does not work to repatriate them.
Lebanon, grappling with its worst-ever economic crisis, has the world’s highest proportion of refugees in its population, with the government estimating that…