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Syria’s foreign minister said Monday his country was determined to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon for the first time since the two neighbors gained independence from France more than 60 years ago.
A woman accidentally stabbed herself in the foot with a 3-foot-long sword while performing a Wiccan good luck ritual at a central Indiana cemetery.
An international human rights watchdog is urging Syria to order an independent investigation into the shooting of inmates during a prison riot earlier this month.
An international human rights watchdog is urging Syria to order an independent investigation into the shooting of inmates during a prison riot earlier this month.
Syria’s foreign minister has arrived in Lebanon on the first such visit by a senior Syrian official in more than three years.
Britain’s highest appeals court is scheduled to decide this week whether a divorced woman and her son should be deported to Lebanon, where she claims her abusive husband will gain custody under Sharia law.
Palestinian security officials say the leader of an extremist Palestinian group has died from wounds sustained in a clash inside a refugee camp in south Lebanon.
A former Israeli defense official says the Israeli military used cluster bombs for two weeks during the 2006 Lebanon war without telling the Israeli government.
Four tractor-trailers carrying the remains of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters are headed to Lebanon’s capital a day after a prisoner exchange between Israel and Lebanon.
A look at five Lebanese prisoners freed by Israel on Wednesday as part of an exchange deal with Hezbollah:
Iran has won the first round of its proxy war against America in the streets of Beirut. Hezbollah gunmen flaunting their snipers have become the norm and the Lebanese government condemnations have been reduced to mere symbolism. Shias, it seems, are...
Lebanon is a country without a standing Parliament, and a President at the moment and yet regional players are having a go at each other making it immensely difficult for the international community to find a solution in installing a legitimate...
The massive bomb which killed Lebanon’s likely next army chief, Brig. Gen. Francois Hajj, has raised many questions. At first glance it would appear to be revenge killing by Fatah al-Islam, the Al Qaeda aided Muslim outfit that was hounded out from the...
It seems that US is in no mood to give diplomacy a chance when dealing with Syria and Iran (countries included in America’s axis of evil). Syria is long been accused by the United States of fomenting unrest in Lebanon and Iraq, but the brand new...
Last year’s war between Israel and the Lebanese militant outfit Hezbollah had strategic consequences. Both Israel and Hezbollah declared victory but the truth is that the Lebanese armed group had lost much of their ammunition stock and was severely...
The Christians were once the dominant community in Lebanon but now they play second fiddle to Muslims. As if that itself doesn’t threaten them in the fight for survival amidst Lebanon’s political turmoil and insecurity, the fact that the Christian...
The debate in the Lebanon’s assembly to elect the President has heated up between the US backed Fouad Siniora’s Govt. and the rival faction backed by Syria and Iran. The presidential election is never a home affair but something thrust upon them....
Patting few and discarding critics is what US’s intransigence and its Mideast policy is all about. Arabs wary of US policies and amid such suspicions if US invites Arabs for the peace talks, it’s a matter of suspicion. Of course, one is hardly...
Russian and US standoff on Missile Defense Shield (MDS) is not yet over; however, now Israel joins the fray and wants a MDS in place - which it needs to fight against militants – before relinquishing West Bank.
Meanwhile, Israeli Defense...
The Lebanese army has speeded up its operation against Fatah al-Islam militants hiding in Palestine refugee camps. After a bloody Sunday offensive that culminated in the killing of eight militants, the army moved its strike forces deep in to the Nahr...
Lebanese soldiers arrest a demonstrator at a rally demanding the release of Lebanese in Syrian prisons, during the visit of Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem in suburban Baabda, Lebanon, Monday, July 21, 2008. Syria’s foreign minister said Monday...
