An Israeli fighter plane shot down a drone from Lebanon over the Mediterranean sea on Thursday as it was approaching the Israeli coast, the military said. Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, which sent a drone deep into Israel in October, said it was not behind the latest incident. Israel’s military held back from accusing the group, […]

  Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel signed the civil marriage certificate of Kholoud Succariyeh and Nidal Darwish, the state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday. "By this, Succariyeh and Darwish’s union becomes the first civil marriage registered in the records of the Directorate General for Personal Affairs in Lebanon,” the NNA noted.   Charbel, however, pointed […]

    BEIRUT: The U.S. Treasury Department has designated two Lebanese money exchange firms as a ‘primary money laundering concern’ alleging the groups may be laundering millions of dollars of narcotics profits and funneling the money to Hezbollah, according to a press release issued Tuesday. The Treasury Department claims that Lebanese narcotics kingpin Ayman Joumaa […]

  President Michel Suleiman called on Wednesday on the Lebanese to abide by the dissociation policy and not to send arms shipments or fighters to the neighboring country Syria. The president called on different parties not to send “arms shipments and fighters to Syria and not to establish any training bases in Lebanon." He pointed […]

  It sounds as though the Tennis Channel could become a key part of Al Jazeera’s plans to gain traction in the U.S. According to the New York Post‘s Claire Atkinson, the Qatar-backed cable news empire is looking to acquire Tennis Channel to secure a foothold in the U.S. sports TV market. Al Jazeera has […]

  Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo Youhanna Ibrahim and Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo and Iskanderun Boulos al-Yaziji were kidnapped on Monday at the hands of gunmen near the northern Syrian city, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.   Archbishop Ibrahim picked up Archbishop Yaziji in his car from a village on the Turkish border […]

  In a sprawling industrial warehouse inside the heavily guarded Port of Beirut, you’ll find two things you probably weren’t expecting. Firstly, there’s a fully stocked and staffed Duty Free mall with no customers. Secondly, up three floors in a pitch black industrial elevator, there are 200,000 of Lebanon’s most valuable manuscripts and books.    […]

  BEIRUT: A large Lebanese delegation of around 50 political figures traveled to Syria for talks with President Bashar Assad Sunday in a move likely to raise tension in an already divided Lebanon over the crisis next door.   The visiting Lebanese delegation was composed of notable pro-Assad figures and parties from all sects, including […]

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – In one of the images, Tamerlan Tsarnaev is seen massaging the hand of his girlfriend. Reporter, Johannes Hirn wrote,"Tamerlan says his girlfriend is half Portuguese, half Italian girlfriend and converted to Islam: ‘She’s beautiful, man!’"

The story, "Will Box For Passport" by Hirn shows Tamerlan in various poses as he trains for a boxing match. Tamerlan participated in the Golden Gloves competition where he represented New England. He was defeated during the tournament.  Tamerlan also told Hirn, "I don’t have a single American friend, I don’t understand them."  According to Hirn, Tamerlain had already lived in the United States for five years, fleeing violence in his home country and arriving in the U.S. as a refugee. He was studying to become an engineer.

In another caption, Hirn wrote this:  "Tamerlan says he doesn’t drink or smoke anymore: ‘God said no alcohol.’ A muslim, he says: ‘There are no values anymore,’ and worries that ‘people can’t control themselves.’"

  One law enforcement official said that the F.B.I. and the police were seeking “a number of people with whom we would like to speak in furtherance of the investigation.” Asked if any were suspected accomplices or co-conspirators, the official would say only that investigators were “not ready” to classify anyone yet. Another official said that […]