The Latest Breaking News from Mediterranean

Noticing so many eastern Mediterranean and Lebanese restaurants becoming popular, I was hungry for a quick dinner with their savory and aromatic flavors. Using za'atar found in the spice section of the market, I created this quick dinner with very little effort.

Ninety-seven people have died after an asylum seeker boat from Lebanon capsized in the Mediterranean.

Damascus (AFP) - Eighty-nine bodies have been recovered since a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sunk off Syria's coast, Syrian state media said Saturday, as the Lebanese army said it arrested a suspected smuggler behind one of the deadliest recent shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean.

An airport serving France's southern Mediterranean coast is closed indefinitely after a cargo plane overshot its runway on landing and finished nose-down in the water of an adjacent lake before dawn on Saturday. The three people aboard were rescued unharmed from the Aeropostale Boeing 737 that was laden with air…

Lebanon’s northern region has been transformed into a trafficking hub for migrants looking to escape the country on “death boats” that sail across the Mediterranean nation’s open waters. Smuggling migrants has become an organized and profitable crime pursued by Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian nationals. Lebanese authorities, with their modest capabilities,…

Damascus (AFP) - At least 77 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Syria's health minister said Friday, in one of the deadliest such shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean.

The perfectly-preserved shipwreck discovered off the coast of Israel proves that traders from Mediterranean countries were unloading their goods in the Holy Land after the Islamic conquest in the 7th-century

An ancient shipwreck found off the shore of Israel and loaded with cargo from all over the Mediterranean shows that traders from the West still came to port even after the Islamic conquest of the Holy Land, researchers say.

Israel’s prime minister has vowed to begin production at a contested Mediterranean natural gas field “as soon as it is possible.”