A pinch of coarse sea salt. A dash of rosemary. A bit of olive, almond, and coconut oil. Blend together, put over fire, and stirred for about two hours. Sound like a recipe? It is, but it’s one used for soap. At Khan el Saboun in Daher el Aayn, Tripoli, the Bader Hassoun family […]

  BEIRUT: Pressure is mounting on the United States and its allies to respond to an alleged chemical weapons attack outside the Syrian capital that officials say was probably perpetrated by the government, even if they cannot establish responsibility with certainty. U.N. weapons inspectors were to begin moving in to the site of the attack […]

TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Car bombs exploded outside two Sunni mosques in this northern Lebanese city on Friday as many worshipers were just finishing prayers, killing dozens of people, wounding hundreds and sending new sectarian shudders through the country, already deeply unsettled by the conflict in neighboring Syria. The double bombing was the first time that […]

He gave no details, but media reports say the US Navy is strengthening its presence in the eastern Mediterranean. On Friday, President Barack Obama said fresh allegations of chemical weapons use by the Syrian government this week was of "grave concern". Syria’s main ally Russia said there was evidence rebels were behind the attack. The […]

Tehran – An Iranian man, converted from Islam to Christianity, was sentenced to ten years in prison for "crimes against state security": the defendant is guilty of distributing copies of the Gospel in the country. Mohammad-Hadi Bordbar, known as Mostafa, a native of the city of Rasht, was accused of conspiracy and sentenced. As reported […]

President Michel Suleiman on Thursday expressed "grave concern" over the use of chemical weapons in Syria and condemned the firing of rockets from Lebanon at Israel as a "violation of Resolution 1701 and Lebanese sovereignty." The president said that if confirmed the attacks would totally be in violation of “human values and principles.” Suleiman voiced […]

It didn’t take long after last week’s car bomb in Al-Roueiss for Hezbollah to lay out its plan of attack. The group immediately announced a retaliatory campaign against Sunni targets under the guise of targeting so-called “takfiris” in Lebanon. Hezbollah-allied media have specified by name the areas where the group is likely to launch operations […]

Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, the soldier convicted of giving a trove of secret U.S. documents to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday in the largest public breach of classified data in history. The judge, Col. Denise Lind, also demoted him to private and dishonorably discharged him from the […]

In a tiny town snuggled about halfway between Nabatiyeh and Bint Jbeil, politics, tradition, and finances take their toll on a local NGO. The Association for a Better Society (ABS), based in the largely pro-Amal town of Souaneh, has plans to renovate a park, host inter-sectarian dialogue sessions, and increase the size of their multilingual […]

A Canadian man who used to live in Dearborn is being mourned in metro Detroit’s Lebanese-American communities after he was killed in a terrorist attack in a Beirut suburb in Lebanon. Hussein Ghamlouch, 52, who was in Beirut to get married to a woman there, was one of at least 27 people killed Thursday in […]