Recent News Headlines : Beirut. - Lebanon

CIVILIAN TOLL MOUNTS AS REGIME FORCES TRY TO REACH REBEL-BESIEGED BASE NEAR DAMASCUS


Syrian regime forces on Thursday battled to reach troops trapped in a rebel bastion eastern Ghouta, as a monitor said at least 28 civilians were killed in... READ MORE

5th January, 2018 0

THOUSANDS DISPLACED BY FIGHTING IN SYRIA'S IDLIB


Believed to be the largest remaining rebel-held area in Syria, hospitals, markets and bakeries across Idlib province have been hit by government air raids... READ MORE

5th January, 2018 489

ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS ST. PETERSBURG SUPERMARKET BOMBING


BEIRUT - The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Friday for the bomb attack that tore through a St. Petersburg supermarket and wounded 14 people on Wednesday... READ MORE

30th December, 2017 0

ICRC HOPES TO RESUME MEDICAL EVACUATIONS IN SYRIA'S GHOUTA


Children are seen in an ambulance during medical evacuation from the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta to Damascus, Syria December 27, 2017... READ MORE

28th December, 2017 293

ASSAD MUST GO, ERDOGAN SAYS, AS SYRIA WAR WINDS DOWN


Russia and Iran have always backed Mr. Assad, while Turkey supports some Syrian rebel groups... READ MORE

28th December, 2017 582

SYRIA ALLOWS 4 CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS TO LEAVE BESIEGED SUBURB. HUNDREDS REMAIN.


Ambulances conveyed three sick children and a woman out of Eastern Ghouta late Tuesday for medical treatment in Damascus hospitals... READ MORE

28th December, 2017 111

EVACUATION OF CRITICALLY ILL FROM EASTERN GHOUTA


Aid agencies are evacuating critically ill Syrians from Eastern Ghouta, an area home to around 400,000 people that has been under government siege since 2013... READ MORE

27th December, 2017 1041

SYRIAN REFUGEES IN LEBANON DROP BELOW 1 MILLION FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2014


The number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon has dropped to below 1 million for the first time since 2014, the United Nations told AFP on Tuesday. A... READ MORE

26th December, 2017 2

SAAD HARIRIS STRANGE SOJOURN IN SAUDI ARABIA


BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon's prime minister, Saad Hariri, was summoned at 8 30 a.m... READ MORE

25th December, 2017 7706

IRAN, TURKEY, RUSSIA STRIKE DEAL ON SYRIA DETAINEES


Iran and Russiasupport the Syrian government, while Turkey has largely supported rebels fighting against the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad... READ MORE

22nd December, 2017 83

JOURNALIST'S HAUNTING PHOTO OF WAR-WOUNDED SYRIAN BABY INSPIRES PEOPLE TO COVER ONE EYE


I was putting my eye on the viewfinder and I was truly crying as I am seeing Karim through my camera... READ MORE

22nd December, 2017 0

EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE RULES UBER IS A TRANSPORT COMPANY, CAN BE REGULATED


The service provided by Uber connecting individuals with non-professional drivers is covered by services in the field of transport, said the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice... READ MORE

21st December, 2017 27

SYRIAN ACTIVISTS WAGE CAMPAIGN TO SUPPORT INFANT SEVERELY WOUNDED IN REGIME ATTACKS


Karim was first wounded in late October when artillery shells struck a market in Hammouria, in rebel-held eastern Ghouta, killing his mother... READ MORE

20th December, 2017 0

AL-QAIDA DIVISIONS MAY AID ASSAD AS HE EYES SYRIA'S IDLIB


Turkey wants the Syrian branch HTS to cut all links with the international organization, Kanjo said, paving the way for al-Golani to join the political process... READ MORE

19th December, 2017 0

LEBANON ARRESTS UBER DRIVER IN FEMALE U.K. EMBASSY WORKER'S SLAYING


A police official said Dykes' murder was a criminal act and was not politically motivated, adding that the suspect had confessed to the killing... READ MORE

19th December, 2017 1

UBER DRIVER WITH A CRIMINAL RECORD KILLED BRITISH EMBASSY WORKER IN BEIRUT, AUTHORITIES SAY


Investigators tracked Harb through surveillance footage, which captured his car in Gemmayzeh and in the area where Dykes's body was found, Awdi said... READ MORE

18th December, 2017 409

BRITISH DIPLOMAT FOUND STRANGLED IN BEIRUT


Britain's Foreign Office in London confirmed the death of the diplomat, named by British media and her friends as Rebecca Dykes... READ MORE

18th December, 2017 14

'BEATEN' PALESTINIAN BOY IN VIRAL PHOTO CHARGED


In the Middle East, protesters took to the streets of Amman, Beirut, the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza... READ MORE

16th December, 2017 4736

CRISIS BOOSTED CONFIDENCE IN LEBANESE ECONOMY


Salameh placed further hope on Lebanon's potential oil and gas wealth... READ MORE

15th December, 2017 0

HOW FORCED MARRIAGE SAVED A US DEFECTOR IN NORTH KOREA


Charles Jenkins was the only one of the four 1960s defectors who set foot outside North Korea again... READ MORE

14th December, 2017 757

DOUBTS OVER IMPACT OF PUTIN'S SYRIA WITHDRAWAL DECLARATION


On a brief and surprise stopover, Russia's President Vladimir Putin landed in Khmeimim airbase in Syria's Latakia early on Monday... READ MORE

13th December, 2017 133

BLOCKADE COULD PUSH YEMEN INTO 'HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE' AS 8.4 MILLION ON BRINK OF FAMINE


"We are trying to help prevent a famine from occurring," Stephen Anderson, Yemen country director for the World Food Programme (WFP), told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Tuesday... READ MORE

13th December, 2017 1

HEZBOLLHEZBAH LEADER VOWS TO RETURN FOCUS TO ISRAEL AT RALLY IN BEIRUT


Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated at a Hezbollah rally in southern Beirut to protest US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the... READ MORE

12th December, 2017 148

EU TELLS NETANYAHU IT REJECTS TRUMP'S JERUSALEM MOVE


Israel, which annexed East Jerusalem after capturing it in a 1967 war, considers the entire city to be its capital... READ MORE

12th December, 2017 1574

HEZBOLLAH'S HASSAN NASRALLAH VOWS TO FOCUS ON PALESTINE


His speech came as thousands of Hezbollah supporters demonstrated in Beirut, chanting Death to America!... READ MORE

11th December, 2017 439

UNICEF DEMANDS URGENT EVACUATION OF 137 SICK SYRIAN CHILDREN FROM BESIEGED 'DE-ESCALATION' ZONE


The Eastern Ghouta suburb, home to 400,000 residents, has been besieged since 2013 and humanitarian conditions there have deteriorated sharply amid violence that intensified since Nov. 14... READ MORE

11th December, 2017 1

FURY SPREADS FROM JAKARTA TO RABAT


According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, 157 people were injured on Sunday in confrontations with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza... READ MORE

10th December, 2017 16291

ISRAELI, FRENCH LEADERS TANGLE OVER TRUMP'S JERUSALEM DECISION


Macron calls trump's move to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital 'dangerous for peace'... READ MORE

10th December, 2017 888

IN A BLOW TO HAMAS, ISRAEL DESTROYS TUNNEL FROM GAZA AS JERUSALEM TENSIONS GROW


And that's because whatever is East Jerusalem or any other part, that's between the Palestinians and the Israelis... READ MORE

10th December, 2017 13

DOZENS INJURED NEAR U.S. EMBASSY IN LEBANON PROTESTING TRUMP'S DECISION ON JERUSALEM


In Jerusalem itself, violence has been limited to small confrontations between protesters and Israeli security forces... READ MORE

10th December, 2017 3

Trending News Headlines : Beirut.

PALESTINIANS CALL DAYS OF RAGE OVER US JERUSALEM PLAN


Jerusalem remains at the core of the perennial Israel-Palestine conflict as Palestinians want Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state... READ MORE

6th December, 2017 11378

'ISRAEL SHOULDN'T GO TO WAR WITH LEBANON, AS WE WILL SURELY WIN' - LEBANESE FM


We should restrain Israel from starting a war exactly because Lebanon is sure to win it, he claimed... READ MORE

18th November, 2017 6736

BAFFLING EVENTS IN LEBANON ARE FUELING ANXIETY IN THE MIDEAST


France has longstanding interests in Lebanon, a former colony, and Mr. Macron was invited to Saudi Arabia by Prince Mohammed... READ MORE

10th November, 2017 6017

EXCLUSIVE: KUSHNER IS LEAVING TILLERSON IN THE DARK ON MIDDLE EAST TALKS, SOURCES SAY


The State Department's concerns about Kushner's approach predate reports this week that Trump may move to oust Tillerson by the end of the year... READ MORE

3rd December, 2017 4423

SAUDI ARABIA SAYS LEBANON DECLARES WAR, DEEPENING CRISIS


Hezbollah is both a military and a political organization that is represented in the Lebanese parliament and in the Hariri-led coalition government formed last year... READ MORE

6th November, 2017 4313

SAUDI ARABIA ORDERS ITS CITIZENS OUT OF LEBANON


Reaction in Washington on Thursday to Saudi Arabia's decision to order its citizens out of Lebanon was also cautious... READ MORE

10th November, 2017 3833

MORE THAN 60 ARRESTED AS EGYPT CRACKS DOWN ON GAY COMMUNITY


Hussein Malla AP The sweeps have unfolded as international human rights activists have denounced the Egyptian government and urged an end to the arrests... READ MORE

18th October, 2017 3785

SAUDI ARABIA SAYS LEBANON DECLARES WAR, DEEPENING CRISIS


Hezbollah is both a military and a political organization that is represented in the Lebanese parliament and in the Hariri-led coalition government formed last year... READ MORE

6th November, 2017 3731

PALESTINIANS CLASH WITH ISRAELI TROOPS TO PROTEST TRUMPS JERUSALEM DECLARATION


The mood in the streets of downtown East Jerusalem, where there was a heavy Israeli police presence, was tense and sullen... READ MORE

8th December, 2017 3571

WHERES SAAD HARIRI? LEBANON WANTS TO KNOW


But he admitted he had not spoken to Mr. Hariri since the prime minister went to Saudi Arabia, and acknowledged the uncertainty facing Lebanon... READ MORE

8th November, 2017 3562

PROTESTS NEAR US EMBASSY IN LEBANON OVER TRUMPS DECISION


Protests in Lebanon Near U.S. Embassy After Trumps Jerusalem Decision... READ MORE

10th December, 2017 2831

HEZBOLLAH SAYS SAUDI DECLARES LEBANON WAR WITH HARIRI DETENTION


It is clear that Saudi Arabia and Saudi officials have declared war on Lebanon and on Hezbollah in Lebanon, he said... READ MORE

10th November, 2017 2318

BACKLASH, PROTESTS CONTINUE OVER TRUMP'S JERUSALEM DECISION


The Jerusalem stabbing appears to be the first since Trumps announcement of his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israels capital, according to the Associated Press... READ MORE

10th December, 2017 2033

NASRALLAH REJECTS ARAB LEAGUE STATEMENT ON HEZBOLLAH


Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has rejected claims made by Arab foreign ministers that the Lebanese group is arming rebels in Yemen... READ MORE

20th November, 2017 1934

TENSION MOUNTS IN LEBANON AS SAUDI ARABIA ESCALATES POWER STRUGGLE WITH IRAN


But it was brought to a head on 3 November, at a lunch in Beirut being hosted by prime minister Saad Hariri... READ MORE

12th November, 2017 1931

MACRON TELLS NETANYAHU US RECOGNITION OF JERUSALEM IS 'THREAT TO PEACE'


Meanwhile, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrived in Europe on his first foreign trip since US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel... READ MORE

10th December, 2017 1853

HEZBOLLAH SAYS SAUDI DECLARES LEBANON WAR WITH HARIRI DETENTION


It is clear that Saudi Arabia and Saudi officials have declared war on Lebanon and on Hezbollah in Lebanon, he said... READ MORE

10th November, 2017 1788

'EVERY ONE OF US IS HEZBOLLAH'


Five days on, such political posters keep springing up across the neighbourhood of Tariq el-Jdideh, a Beirut stronghold of the Sunni Muslim leader... READ MORE

9th November, 2017 1782

HAMAS: MOSSAD ASSASSINATED TUNISIAN DRONE-MAKER MEMBER


Hamas accuses Israel intelligence agency Mossad of being behind assassination of its Tunisian member Mohammed al-Zawari... READ MORE

16th November, 2017 1699

TEAR GAS FIRED AS RIOTING PROTESTERS BREAK DOWN US EMBASSY GATES IN BEIRUT (WATCH LIVE)


Tensions are running high across the region and around the world now that US President Donald Trump has officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel... READ MORE

10th December, 2017 1604

THE MURKY ORIGINS OF THE 'BRITAIN FIRST' VIDEOS TRUMP RETWEETED


THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD TRUMP, HAS RETWEETED THREE OF DEPUTY LEADER JAYDA FRANSEN'S TWITTER VIDEOS!... READ MORE

29th November, 2017 1447

LEBANON'S PM SAAD AL-HARIRI HOLDS OFF RESIGNATION


Hariri's return to Lebanon comes two weeks after he announced his shock resignation as the country's prime minister in a televised speech from Saudi Arabia... READ MORE

22nd November, 2017 1315

LEBANON'S HARIRI ARRIVES IN FRANCE TO MEET MACRON


Prime Minister Hariri then has the intention, I believe, to return to his country in the following days or weeks... READ MORE

18th November, 2017 1308

'DECADES OF CHAOS': ARAB LEADERS CONDEMN US DECISION ON JERUSALEM


Jordan's King Abdullah said There is no alternative to a two-state solution, and Jerusalem is key to any peace agreement... READ MORE

7th December, 2017 1271

LEBANESE LEADER ENDING SAUDI STAY ARRIVES IN FRANCE


Questions are swirling about why Mr. Hariri spent two weeks in Saudi Arabia, where he announced his resignation... READ MORE

18th November, 2017 1262

HOW ZIAD AHMAD ITANI FELL INTO MOSSAD'S HONEY TRAP


Abi Saab also thinks Itani's handlers in the Mossad ordered his vociferous public defence of Doueiri's cultural ties with Israel... READ MORE

1st December, 2017 1258

JERUSALEM LARGELY PEACEFUL AS REGION PROTESTS TRUMP MOVE


In Gaza, Palestinian health officials reported one death and more than 30 injuries by midafternoon from Israeli fire along the border... READ MORE

8th December, 2017 1177

MICHEL AOUN PRESSES SAUDIS ON SAAD HARIRI'S STATUS


Lebanon's president has called on Saudi Arabia to clarify exactly why Saad Hariri, the country's prime minister, has yet to return to Beirut... READ MORE

11th November, 2017 1064

MACRON INVITES SAAD HARIRI TO PARIS WITH FAMILY


Emmanuel Macron's offer came just hours after Lebanon's President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday that nothing justified the apparent detention of Hariri in Saudi Arabia... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 907

US DECLINES COMMENT ON HARIRI'S STATUS IN SAUDI ARABIA


State Department spokeswoman says US charge d'affairs in Riyadh met Hariri but refuses to comment on what's going on... READ MORE

10th November, 2017 783


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