BAGHDAD: Dr. Marwa al-Khafaji’s homecoming after 20 days in a hospital isolation ward was met by spite. Someone had barricaded her family home’s...
BAGHDAD: Security forces set fire to anti-government protest tents in the country's south early Saturday and re-opened key public squares in Baghdad that...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live rounds during clashes with anti-government protesters overnight and Monday morning in Baghdad, killing...
BEIRUT: A Canadian military airlift Thursday transported 164 Syrian refugees from the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut to Toronto , the first of...
BEIRUT: A tightening siege in winter and an attempt to polish their image played a part in the Nusra Front’s decision to release the 16 Lebanese...
BEIRUT: Families of Lebanese servicemen rejoiced in Downtown Beirut with news that their loved ones were released by the Nusra Front Tuesday. Flower petals...
BEIRUT: Last minute demands by the Nusra Front delayed a swap deal to release 16 Lebanese servicemen held by the Al-Qaeda-linked extremist group for over a...
MINA, Lebanon: The last wisp of sunlight before nightfall paints the seaside slum where Sheikh Imad Bkhit lives deep lavender. The tide rises, and cries of...
BEIRUT: A cancer-ridden matriarch with a serious addiction, unintentional incest between two lost souls, a teenager with a penchant for hashish and a dark...
BURJ AL-BARAJNEH: Outside the Rassoul al-Aazam hospital, a soft-spoken young man with tired, red eyes, tried to find the words to express what he had seen the...
BEIRUT/BAALBEK, Lebanon: An investigation was launched into a deadly blast that ripped through Lebanon’s restive northeast border town of Arsal...
ZAHLE, Lebanon: Wooden beams are stacked high, cement blocks are piled in rows and the screech of an electric saw resounds across the field – for Syrian...
RAS BAALBEK, Lebanon: For months, the sound of artillery fire reverberating through Ras Baalbek’s countryside has been replaced by an eerie calm, leading to...
BEIRUT: When the head of the Lebanese Army regiment posted in east Lebanon noticed a collection of Syrian refugee tents a mere 50 meters from his encampment...
TAALABAYA, Lebanon: The U.N. Relief and Works Agency is not out of the woods yet. That was the message Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl conveyed...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: The waters off Tripoli’s marina shimmer as fishermen row out to sea for their daily catch. Not far away, port authorities keep watch...
BEIRUT: Fierce shelling targeted rebel positions in two areas near the besieged city of Zabadani Tuesday, in an apparent attempt by the Syrian regime to force...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah and the Syrian army stepped up their military push to retake Zabadani Sunday, a day after a truce to allow a negotiated ending to the...
BEIRUT: With dire funding shortfalls putting the future of the agency’s operations at risk, World Food Program’s Executive Director Ertharin Cousin concluded...
BEIRUT: A 72-hour cease-fire came into effect Wednesday in Zabadani, a major rebel stronghold along Syria’s border with Lebanon, to give more time for...
BEIRUT: General Security Wednesday called on Syrian refugees and Palestinians from Syria who entered Lebanon before January 2015 to settle their residency...
BEIRUT: Mary Khoury sits indignantly arranging printouts of the Lebanese flag under the scorching July sun – a banner for her brother George, who for...
RIYAQ, Lebanon: From 150 meters deep, the water rushing out of the pipe runs crystal clear. “It’s very good,” says a member of Riyaq’s...
BEIRUT: The deadline for a $474-million World Bank loan to fund a crucial water-supply project that is pending approval from Parliament was extended Monday...
BEIRUT: The hour that Zahra Msheik was allowed to see her husband somewhere within the rocky terrain of the Qalamoun Mountains transpired in five minutes. Or...