Syrians return to their home city by Lebanese border in state-organized trip
Qusayr, a once bustling commercial hub in western Syria, has not seen any fighting since government troops, with the help of Lebanon's powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah group, drove out Sunni Muslim rebels six years ago. Large sections of the city lie in ruin and of the ...
Alleged 80-meter-deep Hezbollah attack tunnel from Lebanon to Israel revealed
The Israeli army on Monday showed the inside of a sophisticated tunnel passing deep underground from Lebanon into northern Israel, saying it was intended for use by Lebanese Hezbollah militants. The tunnel was rigged with electrical wiring, fuse boxes and communications equipment. An army spokesman ...
In Lebanon, vintage film posters offer insights into Western cliches of the Arab world
A pale woman rides through the desert, flanked by armed men on camels, a palace shimmering in the distance. This is Lebanon — or so someone thought in the 1950s. At a Beirut cultural center, Lebanese film buff Abboudi Abu Jawdeh is exhibiting vintage film ...
Retired Lebanese soldiers picket central bank over wage and benefit cuts
Retired soldiers in Lebanon started picketing the Central Bank building late on Sunday in protest at draft budget proposals to cut the state wage bill, saying they aimed to stop workers entering on Monday morning. As about 100 protesters gathered outside the Central Bank, Lebanon's ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah uses Syrian war gains to increase political clout
Hezbollah's bigger role in Lebanon's new unity government points to a growing appetite to shape state affairs and builds on unprecedented military clout the group is wielding after helping turn the tide in Syria's war. Hezbollah's expanding power in Lebanon reflects a deepening of Iranian ...
Syrian state media say air defenses repelled an Israeli air raid near the international airport south of Damascus on Sunday. Syrian state TV said the air defenses "prevented" the attack from achieving its goals. It said Israel fired six missiles on an area near Damascus ...
Israel says all Hezbollah cross-border tunnels from Lebanon have been found
Israel said Sunday it had uncovered all cross-border attack tunnels dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon and will bring its operation to find and destroy them to an end after more than a month. The operation had raised concerns that Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shiite group and ...
Winter storm freezes refugees in flooded Lebanon camps, compounding their misery
Storms in Lebanon have flooded Syrian refugee camps, ruining tents, mattresses and food and compounding the misery of people enduring powerful winter winds and biting cold. More than a million Syrians fled to neighboring Lebanon since war broke out at home in 2011, and U.N. ...
U.N. force says Israel-Lebanon border tunnels allegedly dug by Hezbollah violate truce
U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon said Monday that two of the four tunnels discovered by Israel and allegedly dug by the Hezbollah militant group cross the border in violation of the cease-fire agreement that ended the 2006 war. UNIFIL said it has been investigating the tunnels ...
U.N. force confirms existence of tunnel in Israel near Lebanon border
A U.N. peacekeeping force Thursday confirmed the presence of a tunnel in northern Israel near the Lebanese border, after the Jewish state accused Hezbollah of digging under the frontier. UNIFIL "visited a location" near Metula in northern Israel, it said in a statement, and "can ...
British radio presenter Gavin Ford was laid to rest Sunday near Beirut in a ceremony that brought together dozens of fans, friends and family members days after his murder. Ford's lifeless body was discovered Tuesday at his home in Beit Meri, a mountain town east ...
Dramatic downfall of Carlos Ghosn reverberates in Lebanon
He may have fallen from grace internationally as one of the auto industry's most powerful leaders, but Carlos Ghosn can count on continued support in at least one corner of the globe. Lebanon has long held hopes that Ghosn, whose grandparents were Lebanese and who ...
