Egypt’s Christians are living in fear after a string of attacks against churches, businesses and homes they say were carried out by angry supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. As police dispersed Morsi supporters from two Cairo squares on Wednesday, attackers torched churches across the country in an apparent response. "People are terrified; no […]

khazen.org rejects these attacks – Our prayers with the wounded and families of the affected in the explosion A powerful car bomb struck the southern Beirut stronghold of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group on Thursday, killing 20 people, wounding 120 and trapping many others inside damaged buildings, witnesses and emergency officials said. The blast, a month after […]

President Michel Suleiman might head to a short visit to Saudi Arabia ahead of a private vacation that he will spend in Europe, al-Joumhouria reported on Wednesday. According to the report, the president will kick start his vacation on August 18 which will last until the 28th. Meanwhile, the political scene in the country seems […]

Last week, Lebanese Army Intelligence arrested Mohammad Haji and Hekmat Idris, two Syrian army defectors in Rashaya, a town south of Beqaa near the Syrian border. News reports suggest that Haji and Idris had fled Syria because they no longer wished to take part in the violence there. While an investigation is said to be […]

BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman called on Hezbollah Monday to avoid intervening in Syria, saying the resources of the resistance belonged to all the Lebanese. “The national capabilities, which are the Army, the state and the resistance, do not belong to a faction or sect,” he added. “They belong to the nation and cannot be biased, […]

A Detroit-area doctor has been charged with bilking the government of tens of millions of dollars by deliberately misdiagnosing patients with cancer and illegally billing Medicare for the treatment. Dr. Farid Fata will remain behind bars until at least Tuesday as a third federal judge considers whether or not to grant him bail. He was […]

The alleged detection by U.S. intelligence agencies of what some officials say are the most serious al-Qaeda attack plots since September 11, 2001, has led to the closure until August 10th of nineteen American embassies across the Middle East. The measure was described by the State Department as one taken “out of an abundance of […]

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday condemned as “disgraceful” the abduction of two Turkish pilots near Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport, saying they were kidnapped in a prearranged and “professional” manner amid “the absence of the state’s security authorities.” Al-Rahi warned that the operation will harm Lebanon’s image, urging state officials to stop being “reckless […]