Maronite Partiarch Beshara al-Rahi urged Christians on Sunday to play a positive role in resolving the crises in Lebanon on the levels of economy, politics and peace. “The Lebanese need to be reassured and to get out from the worrisome state that they have reached,” al-Rahi said during Sunday mass at the patriarchal at his […]

  Anticipation built in the packed, darkened movie theater. Life and its cares began to recede. Multimedia. Then, just after midnight on Friday, fantasy became nightmare, and a place of escape became a trap, when a man strode to the front in a multiplex near Denver and opened fire. At least 12 people were killed and […]

  Jessica Ghawi had escaped a mall shooting in Toronto weeks ago when an "odd feeling" led her outside, and then blogged about how fortunate she was. But in an ironic and tragic twist of fate, Ghawi died in Friday’s Colorado theater shooting spree, one of 12 fatalities in the mass killing. Ghawi, a sports blogger who […]

  BEIRUT: Investigative Judge Ghassan Oueidat recommended the death penalty Thursday for 148 Islamists involved in the 2007 Palestinian refugee camp clashes with the Lebanese Army. Eleven were indicted in absentia while the rest have been detained since the clashes ended between soldiers and the militant group Fatah al-Islam. [DailyStar]  

  The March 14 forces on Thursday announced their boycott of the upcoming national dialogue session over “the refusal of Hizbullah’s leadership to discuss the issue of arms.” “The conferees discussed the latest stances voiced by Hizbullah’s leadership, which rejected to discuss the issue of the party’s arms and blocked the possibility to seriously address the […]

  Rebels seized control of Syria’s border crossings with Iraq on the bloodiest day of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, as China and Russia dismayed the West by blocking UN action against his regime. The rebel offensive on Syria’s eastern border on Thursday came as the army focused its resources on Damascus, resorting to tank […]

  ​The President of the Republic General Michel Sleiman discussed at the Presidential Palace in Baabda today with former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora the latest political developments and the preparations for the national dialogue session next Tuesday.      

  The Saint George Hospital University Medical Center in Beriut’s Ashrafiyeh neighborhood is expected to inaugurate on Thursday a helipad on the roof of the building during a ceremony sponsored by Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Beirut Elias Audeh. The inauguration will take place at 11:00 a.m. and will include medical maneuvers by the Lebanese airforce and […]

  A suicide bomber struck Wednesday at the heart of Syria’s top command, killing three of President Bashar al-Assad’s top security figures in an attack claimed by rebels who warned of more carnage to come. The attack which targeted Assad’s inner core for the first time in a 16-month uprising came ahead of a showdown between […]

  Al-Jazeera television aired Tuesday a video it received from the abductors of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims who were kidnapped in Syria in May, in which the kidnappers announced they will release two of the captives. “In response to the appeal of the Muslim Scholars Committee in Lebanon, we will hand over two of the guests […]