OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the soldiers involved in the airstrike on the border with Syria after the military said it spotted militants carrying a bomb in the Israeli-held Golan Heights. The Israeli military said it carried out the strike after troops saw "a group of armed terrorists" approach the border […]

• Marcus Baram

The plot was hatched by leaders of the diaspora gathered in a ballroom in Boston on the evening of July 8, 1920.

Operation Nemesis was funded by donations from hundreds of wealthy businessmen and professionals across the country.

The assassins included a hodgepodge of young men from around the world — a shoe factory worker in Watertown, Massachusetts; an accountant in Syracuse, New York; a former reconnaissance scout with the Russian army; a gunrunner from Constantinople, and a soldier who once served in Persia.

And their mission was to avenge the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian genocide, the brutal extermination of an entire people by agents of the Ottoman Empire during and after the World War I. 

We demand for the world to recognize the Armenian  Genocide! And pray for all of the victims!! (khazen.org)     Thousands of Lebanese of Armenian descent, holding banners and a giant Armenian flag, march to mark the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, […]

  Lebanon’s Armenians held a protest on Friday to mark the 100th anniversary of when some 250 Armenian intellectuals were rounded up by Ottoman Turks as the first step of the genocide against them. The protesters marched from the Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia to the town of Bourj Hammoud to demand […]

  BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army has detained four people after raiding a Bekaa Valley warehouse that was used to manufacture explosives, the military said in a statement Saturday. The statement said a Friday night raid on a warehouse in the West Bekaa village of al-Marj led to the arrest of four Syrian nationals. They are […]

  Controversial reports surfaced on Saturday over an alleged Israeli airstrike on Hizbullah and Syrian military posts in the strategic Qalamoun region. Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath TV channel reported on Saturday that Israel targeted overnight a missile depot in the region. According to the channel, the airstrike was preceded by an Israeli raid on Wednesday that targeted […]

  Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi has urged the international community to recognize the Armenian genocide, expressing fears of further such atrocities against Christians in the world. Al-Rahi, who is in Armenia to attend the ceremony to mark the centenary of the World War I killings by Ottoman Turks, was quoted by the National News Agency […]

  BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army said Thursday it had arrested eight individuals, including two high-ranking members of a terrorist group during raids in north Lebanon. An army statement said that the “exceptional raids” in the Akkar towns of Khirbet Daoud and Doueir Adwiyeh targeted suspects accused of assaulting Lebanese soldiers and carrying out terrorist operations […]

  Speaker Nabih Berri is exerting efforts to convince the rival parliamentary blocs to attend an upcoming parliamentary session that mainly Christian lawmakers oppose amid the absence of a head of state. The agenda of the session was distributed to lawmakers, An Nahar newspaper reported on Thursday. It reportedly includes eight articles that will be […]

  Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi stressed on Wednesday that the Lebanese rivals are united concerning the necessity to safeguard the country’s coexistence and diversity, considering that the Christian martyrs increased the power of the Church and helped in spreading the religion. “Lebanon is passing through a delicate situation… and despite the rift, the Lebanese are […]