BEIRUT: An Italian Jesuit priest who disappeared last month in eastern Syria may still be alive, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday, almost a week after it said he had been killed by al Qaeda-linked rebels. The British-based monitoring group cited sources close to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant […]

President Michel Suleiman expressed on Monday his “grave concern” with the shelling that took place in the Bekaa region of Hermel over the weekend. He consequently tasked the Army Command “to determine the location from where they were fired in order to tackle the situation with the appropriate means.” “At the time when the Lebanese […]

Flush with fresh subsea natural gas finds, Cyprus and Israel are flirting more and more with export cooperation as political deadlock continues to put Lebanon’s hydrocarbon exploration plans on hold. While being behind its neighbors is not in itself a bad thing, the country is keeping tens of willing international companies waiting for a peek […]

CAIRO (AP) — After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like "prisoners of war" before a Muslim woman offered them refuge. Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob. In the four days since security forces cleared two […]

BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s leader said Friday that he is prepared to go to Syria personally to fight extremist Sunni Muslims whom he blamed for the deadliest bombing in Beirut in at least eight years, an attack that analysts said could herald a new “dark era” of sectarian bombings targeting Lebanese civilians. The car bomb, which […]

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, […]