DUBAI: No question was off limits for curious tourists and foreign residents of Dubai wanting to learn more about Emirati culture and the Muslim fasting month...
MANAMA: As the weekend kicks off in Bahrain, Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti cars jam the capital’s roads and hotel lobbies fill with visitors looking for bars,...
BEIRUT: Dark apartment windows outnumber the lit in the quiet night streets of Beirut’s waterfront and central districts, a reminder of Lebanon’s...
BEIRUT: Lured by Lebanon’s winemaking potential and nostalgia for his homeland, Maher Harb left a Paris consultancy job in 2010 and dug vines into the soil of...
BEIRUT: Lebanese banks are pulling out the stops to bring in dollars as the country strives to preserve a 2-decade-old currency peg, offering high returns to...
BEIRUT: IMF criticism of Lebanon’s public finances is valid, but the country’s draft 2018 budget sends a good signal as it seeks to cut one of the...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM/BEIRUT: Anti-aircraft fire downed an Israeli warplane returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria Saturday in the most...
BEIRUT: Warplanes launched heavy attacks on the two last major rebel-held areas in Syria, killing at least 29 people in the Ghouta suburb near the capital and...
BEIRUT: Rapid advances by the Syrian army into one of the rebels’ largest remaining strongholds, Idlib province, have brought it closer to a key...
LONDON/BEIRUT: With fixed exchange rates and some of the world’s worst debt and balance-of-payment ratios, Lebanon risks serious economic crisis next...
BEIRUT: The company formed to rebuild Lebanon’s capital Beirut after its Civil War ended in 1990 is struggling to overcome the latest period of political...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Central Bank has the foreign-currency reserves it needs to keep the pound stable against the U.S. dollar at its pegged rate for the...
BEIRUT: Lebanon has begun reforms to repair its fragile economy after years of paralysis in decision-making but is under pressure to do more to prevent its...
BEIRUT: Proposed tighter U.S. sanctions on Hezbollah have been altered enough to allay fears of major damage to Lebanon’s economy, a sign Washington is taking...
BEIRUT: When builder Abu Salem repairs a shell hole in a house in rebel-held southern Syria, he knows it might not be the last job he does on the structure....
ABU DHABI/BEIRUT: Syria has received 225,000 tons of Russian wheat, part of a 1.2 million ton wheat deal struck in February through its state grain buyer. “So...
BEIRUT: After years of political deadlock, Lebanon finally has a new government. Now, the country needs a new economy. Battered by war in neighboring Syria,...
BEIRUT: Thousands of people are starting to return to formerly rebel-held east Aleppo despite freezing weather and destruction “beyond imagination,” a top...
BEIRUT: Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president Wednesday aroused concern among Syrian rebels and a degree of optimism in Damascus, where his victory was...
ABU DHABI/BEIRUT: Syria’s wheat harvest nearly halved to 1.3 million tons this year, the lowest in 27 years, as fighting and poor rainfall further degraded...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Central Bank chief said he will ensure local banks comply with a U.S. law targeting Hezbollah’s finances, weeks after a bomb attack at a...
BEIRUT: Aid has been cut from rebel-held areas of Aleppo for the longest period since the Syrian civil war began due to an escalation in airstrikes and...