Recent News Headlines : Nahr El Bâred Lebanon
FBI AGENT WHO INTERROGATED SADDAM HUSSEIN LEADS AIRPORT CASE
George Piro, special agent in charge of the FBI's Miami field office, was Saddam's sole interrogator beginning in January 2004... READ MORE›
MICHEL AOUN BEGINS MIDDLE EAST TOUR IN SAUDI ARABIA
Beirut cannot afford the divorce settlement with Riyadh, but Hezbollah is not the sole culprit of the country's malaise... READ MORE›
NEW VIDEO SURFACES OF FLORIDA AIRPORT MASSACRE; FBI'S HUSSEIN INTERROGATOR TO HANDLE CASE
Bryan Santiago said Saturday that his brother had requested psychological help but received little assistance... READ MORE›
CAR BOMB NEAR SYRIAN CAPITAL KILLS 5
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-run monitoring group, said the explosion near a government checkpoint killed four, including three members of military intelligence... READ MORE›
SYRIAN REBELS DENY REPORT OF CEASEFIRE NEAR DAMASCUS
A military news outlet run by Hezbollah reported that a ceasefire had been reached for a number of hours in the area... READ MORE›
WHO WERE THE VICTIMS OF THE ISTANBUL TERROR ATTACK?
Hatice Karcilar Karcilar was a security guard working for a private security company in Istanbul... READ MORE›
SYRIAN REBELS FREEZE PEACE TALKS AFTER ASSAD ABUSES CEASEFIRE
The rebel groups questioned Russia's ability to force the Syrian government and their allies to abide by the terms of the ceasefire deal... READ MORE›
A LOOK AT SOME OF THE 39 PEOPLE KILLED IN THE ISTANBUL ATTACK
Funerals were held Monday in Istanbul for three of the Turkish victims Fatih Cakmak, a security guard at the club, Busra Kose and Yunus Gormek... READ MORE›
'WALKING BUSES' AND COUNCIL HOUSING: A WISHLIST FOR WORLD CITIES IN 2017
2017 brings a new president and expectation of a newly appointed city mayor, and potential for change... READ MORE›
ALEPPO EVACUATION UPDATE: SAUDI ARABIAN KING LAUNCHES FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN FOR SYRIA, DONATES MILLIONS
To provide relief for the brotherly Syrian people, Saudi Arabian state news agency SPA reported... READ MORE›
HUGGING GURU AMMA 'SHOULD JOIN BONO AND MICHAEL D HIGGINS IN A PEACE TASKFORCE'
The suggestion of creating a rapid response, diplomatic mission was first mooted by Concern during the World Humanitarian Summit last May... READ MORE›
NEW GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED UNDER PM SAAD AL-HARIRI
Hariri said the Phalangist Party had been offered a minister of state post but had turned it down... READ MORE›
EVACUEES ARRIVE SAFELY AFTER FLEEING REBEL-HELD ALEPPO
Some 350 people were able to leave a rebel-held pocket of east Aleppo late Sunday, a medical official said, though evacuations have officially been postponed... READ MORE›
DEAL REACHED THAT COULD RESTART ALEPPO EVACUATION
The Syrian government has said that the village evacuations and the one in eastern Aleppo must be done simultaneously, but the rebels say there's no connection... READ MORE›
DEAL REACHED TO RESUME EVACUATION OF EASTERN ALEPPO, SURROUNDING AREAS
Syrian state TV put it at more than 9,000 while Russia, a key Assad ally, said over 9,500 people, including more than 4,500 rebels, were taken out... READ MORE›
ALEPPO EVACUATIONS COULD RESUME AFTER SHIITE VILLAGES DEAL
The Syrian government said the village evacuations and the one in eastern Aleppo must be done simultaneously, but the rebels say there is no connection... READ MORE›
SYRIAN TV, REBELS TRADE BLAME AMID HALTED ALEPPO EVACUATION
Syrian state TV said that since the early hours of the day, four convoys have left Aleppo... READ MORE›
TRUMP CHEERED AS A??THANK YOUA?? TOUR VISITS PENNSYLVANIA
President-elect Donald Trump was introduced by vice-president elect Mike Pence during the rally held at the Giant Center in Hershey, PA... READ MORE›
BLAME GAME STARTS AS ALEPPO'S REBELS FALL
The scene at the Security Council in New York on Tuesday afternoon was worth thousands of words about the failure of diplomacy in Syria... READ MORE›
FACING THE MIRROR: FILMMAKER RECORDS EXILE IN BEIRUT
But that is only one side of Beirut's Syrian community, the most visible side... READ MORE›
HELLISH CONDITIONS ENGULF EAST ALEPPO, WHILE LIFE GOES ON IN THE WEST
All four hospitals in east Aleppo are shuttered, so physician Mohammed Kaheel can't care for Syrians injured from unrelenting bombardments and chemical weapon burns... READ MORE›
HOW IRAN CLOSED THE MOSUL 'HORSESHOE' AND CHANGED IRAQ WAR
If you corner your enemy and don't leave an escape, he will fight till the end, said a Kurdish official involved in planning the Mosul battle... READ MORE›
MATH A CONCERN FOR US TEENS; SCIENCE, READING FLAT ON TEST
Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Puerto Rico participated as international benchmarking systems and received separate scores from the United States... READ MORE›
LIBYAN FORCES CLAIM CONTROL OF ISIL STRONGHOLD OF SIRTE
Hundreds of loyalist troops and unknown number of ISIL fighters killed as pro-government forces seize coastal city... READ MORE›
ISRAELI JETS STRIKE OUTSIDE DAMASCUS, NO CASUALTIES
Syria Israeli jets strike outside Damascus, no casualties... READ MORE›
ISRAELI WARPLANES LAUNCH 2 ROCKETS ACROSS SYRIAN BORDER THAT STRIKE NEAR DAMASCUS
Israeli warplanes launch 2 rockets across Syrian border that strike near Damascus -- RT News... READ MORE›
SYRIAN GOVERNMENT PRESSES ON IN ALEPPO, THOUSANDS DISPLACED
Many of them fled to safer ground in areas under government or Kurdish control... READ MORE›
'ALEPPO IS GOING TO DIE': SYRIAN ARMY ADVANCES INTO REBEL-HELD PARTS OF THE CITY
Syrian state media reported government forces seized the Jabal Badro neighbourhood and entered Sakhour Sunday after it took control of the Masaken Hanano neighbourhood Saturday... READ MORE›
4 ISIS-LINKED MILITANTS KILLED BY ISRAELI MILITARY
The confrontation appeared to be the first of its kind between Israel and Islamic State-affiliated forces based in Syria... READ MORE›
EU COMMISSION PRESIDENT WARNS EUROPE NOT TO LECTURE TURKEY OVER MIGRATION
In an exclusive interview with euronews EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has warned Europe not to lecture Turkey on migrants... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Nahr Al-bared
BEIRUT ALSO THE SITE OF ATTACKS FEELS FORGOTTEN
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Ali Awad, 14, was chopping vegetables when the first bomb struck... READ MORE›
THE ARAB WORLD'S WEALTHIEST NATIONS ARE DOING NEXT TO NOTHING FOR SYRIA'S REFUGEES
Why are Saudi Arabia and its oil-rich neighbors doing so little for Syria's refugees?... READ MORE›
THE TINY PILL FUELING SYRIA'S WAR AND TURNING FIGHTERS INTO SUPERHUMAN SOLDIERS
Battle for control of Syria, has transformed the country from a stopover into a major production site, Reuters reported... READ MORE›
AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST
The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›
CANADA'S SYRIAN REFUGEE PLAN LIMITED TO WOMEN, CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has expressed concern over the federal government's plans to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees by year's end... READ MORE›
EMAILS REVEAL HILLARY'S SHOCKING PAY-FOR-PLAY SCHEME
In 2009, he also pledged 1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE JIHADIS 'MAY BE POSING AS SYRIAN REFUGEES'
Asked if Isil could be sending militants under cover of being refugees Mr Saab said Yes they bring some people the smugglers... READ MORE›
NEWLY RELEASED CLINTON EMAILS SHED LIGHT ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STATE DEPT. AND CLINTON FOUNDATION
No wonder Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin hid emails from the American people, the courts and Congress, he said in a press release... READ MORE›
FOR THOSE WHO REMAIN IN SYRIA DAILY LIFE IS A NIGHTMARE
Or they can go back to Douma, and to a war that has killed a quarter of a million Syrians... READ MORE›
ARTISTS GOT 'HOMELAND IS RACIST' ARABIC GRAFFITI INTO THE LATEST EPISODE OF 'HOMELAND'
The story of how three artists hacked the set of the Showtime series with their anti- Homeland graffiti... READ MORE›
BEIRUT TO BUILD NEW MODERN ART MUSEUM
BeMA - Beirut Museum of Art - will feature 124-metre tower, with 1,000 works forming basis of first exhibition in 2020... READ MORE›
GRAFFITI ON HOMELAND UNNOTICED BY PRODUCERS CALLS SHOW RACIST
In October 2012, Lebanon's tourism minister at the time, Fadi Abboud, threatened to sue the makers of the series for their depiction of Beirut, the Lebanese capital... READ MORE›
OBAMA SENDS SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES TO HELP FIGHT ISIS IN SYRIA
The move could potentially put the American troops in the cross hairs of Russia, which last month began airstrikes on antigovernment forces in Syria... READ MORE›
RUSSIA DESTROYS 472 ISIS TARGETS IN 141 MISSIONS OVER THE WEEKEND
Moscow launched a bombing campaign in support of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's forces at the end of September... READ MORE›
DEAR REFUGEES, DON'T COME HERE
Denmark, like Britain, has an exemption from European Union-wide asylum regulations that aim to redistribute refugees... READ MORE›
BYPASSING THE RISKY SEA REFUGEES REACH EUROPE THROUGH THE ARCTIC
On Wednesday, 73 asylum seekers crossed into Norway from Russia at Storskog, a record for a single day... READ MORE›
ISIS CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR BLASTS THAT KILLED DOZENS IN BEIRUT
Russia, along with Hezbollah and Iran, is a crucial ally of the Syrian government and says it is fighting the Islamic State in Syria... READ MORE›
FIVE YEARS OF WAR IN SYRIA EXPLAINED OR AT LEAST IN CONTEXT
In 2014, the Islamic State seized large parts of Syria and Iraq, and it declared that territory its caliphate... READ MORE›
SYRIAN REFUGEE RECEIVES ?40,000 IN DONATIONS IN 24 HOURS AFTER VIRAL PHOTO SELLING PENS
When Mr Attar was informed of the rising donation total, he told a member of the campaign I want to help other Syrians ... READ MORE›
SYRIA FIGHTERS MAY BE FUELED BY AMPHETAMINES
Captagon is a widely used stimulant throughout the Middle East, according to U.N... READ MORE›
FOR SOME SYRIAN WOMEN, REFUGEE LIFE PROVES UNEXPECTEDLY LIBERATING
For some Syrian women living in Lebanon, the bitter realities of life as a refugee have nourished an unexpected side effect empowerment... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN OFFICIAL CALLS FOR CONTINENT TO TAKE IN 160000 AMID MIGRANT CRISIS
He noted that the list should include candidate countries for accession to the European Union, like the western Balkans... READ MORE›
BEYOND GREECE, THE WORLD IS FILLED WITH DEBT CRISES
Beyond Greece, the world is filled with debt crises... READ MORE›
ALEPPO: RUSSIA CALLS HUMANITARIAN PAUSE IN SYRIAN CITY
During this period the Russian air force and Syrian government troops will halt air strikes and firing from any other types of weapons... READ MORE›
BRITAIN TAKES IN SO FEW REFUGEES FROM SYRIA THEY WOULD FIT ON A SUBWAY TRAIN
Defending policies British officials have defended the government's policies, noting that Britain gives more aid to victims of the Syrian conflict than any other European country... READ MORE›
CLOSE THE DOORS AND WINDOWS AS MILLIONS MORE MIGRANTS ARE COMING
However, Mr Tusk said there was not enthusiasm for proposals to create a single EU coast guard force among leaders... READ MORE›
THE MAP SHOWING THE MOST DANGEROUS EUROPEAN TOURIST DESTINATIONS
Also deemed on a high threat are Lebanon Egypt Australia Thailand and Tunisia... READ MORE›
'THE DAMAGE IS IRREVERSIBLE': AMERICAN MUSLIMS REACT TO TRUMP WIN
For some, the consequences of Trump's victory were direct and immediate... READ MORE›
'EPIC IN SCALE, INCONCEIVABLE UNTIL YOU WITNESS IT'
People are being slaughtered in Syria and no one knows why... READ MORE›
SUNNI-SHIITE MAP STARK POLITICAL SPLIT MIXED POPULATIONS
Sunni-led allies of Saudi Arabia have cut diplomatic ties with Shiite Iran, further polarizing the Middle East along the two major branches of Islam... READ MORE›