BEIRUT: Syria’s government has been using a little-known anti-terrorism law to seize property from dissidents and their families as it takes back control of...
BEIRUT: Muayad al-Dirani was at a medical center in the Syrian town of Douma the night of April 7, when patients started flowing in. Many of them were...
BEIRUT: The war has cost one man part of his liver and intestines. Another his home and work. A third his homeland and studies.All three have lost hope. Abu...
BEIRUT: The corridors are dark in Lebanon’s Public Transport and Railway Administration. A few employees scroll through mobile phones in mostly empty...
HOMS, Syria: President Bashar Assad’s victory in Homs is still evident in the rubble of Bab Amr, a former symbol of the rebellion where five years later...
BEIRUT: After fighting against Syrian President Bashar Assad for six years, rebel soldier Abu Mohammed laid down his arms as part of a peace deal in his...
DAMASCUS: When Jaafar’s grandmother recognized him by his birthmark in a Turkish orphanage, months after his parents were killed fleeing Syria’s...
DAMASCUS: In the cancer ward at Damascus Children’s Hospital, doctors are struggling with a critical shortage of specialist drugs to treat their young...
DAMASCUS: Large parts of Damascus have survived almost six years of conflict in Syria relatively unscarred, but shortages of fuel and electricity, spiraling...
MINA, Saudi Arabia: Fear of getting caught is not enough to deter Abu Ahmad and up to 200,000 other illegal pilgrims from attending this year’s hajj in Mecca,...
BEIRUT: Military Investigative Judge Riyad Abu Ghayda Monday issued an arrest warrant in absentia for pro-Assad figure Ali Eid, head of the Arab Democratic...
BEIRUT: The Lebanon branch of Nusra Front said Monday Hezbollah has made the Army an easy target when it enlisted its protection and asked it to turn a blind...
BEIRUT: A woman died in a Beirut hospital early Wednesday due to injuries she suffered when her husband allegedly beat her repeatedly with a pressure cooker,...
BEIRUT: After acting as head of the Press Federation for 31 years, Mohammad Baalbaki finally decided to resign and hand over his duties, citing health...
BEIRUT: Head of the Progressive Socialist Party MP Walid Jumblatt is reorganizing his business affairs after a close aide requested to be relieved of these...
BEIRUT: Peace is the word this weekend, as the Lebanese Red Cross committee’s third annual Peace Festival kicks off in Downtown Beirut. The festival...
BEIRUT: A Sunni man from Akkar had his penis severed during a brutal attack by his wife’s Druze family, who opposed the interfaith union. Rabih Ahmad, 39, was...
BEIRUT: Preparations are under way to hold a gathering of independent Shiite figures in Beirut on March 31, a source told The Daily Star. The gathering is set...