AFP - i24news

Police charge at demonstrators with batons after they gather outside seat of government

Police in Beirut used force on Wednesday in order to disperse demonstrators who were angry at the Lebanese city's failure to collect huge amounts of trash.

Tensions boiled over as protesters gathered outside the seat of government in Beirut and police, armed with batons, charged at them after scuffles broke out earlier in the day.

 albawaba.com

Negotiations between General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim and Daesh (ISIS) have resumed to reach a deal on the release of the captive servicemen, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported Thursday.

The daily said the talks resumed around two weeks ago through a mediator after more than six months of freeze in the negotiations aimed at agreeing on a prisoner swap.

Ibrahim is waiting for the mediator's return from abroad to hear an answer on his demands from Daesh, al-Joumhouria added.

After a long, mostly successful career as a real-estate mogul and television personality, Donald Trump made good on years of flirtation and …

By Morgan Winsor

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is ordering a probe into how an extremist Lebanese Muslim cleric, Ahmed al-Assir, got a visa to visit the country. The suspected terrorist was arrested Saturday by authorities at Beirut's airport while trying to flee to Nigeria via Cairo, Lebanese media reported.

Buhari, “furious” over the incident, has ordered his Foreign Ministry to investigate how a valid visa was issued to the Sunni Muslim extremist, who has been on the run for more than two years. Nigeria’s National Intelligence Agency and the embassy in Lebanon were also directed to explain what happened, a Foreign Ministry official told Vanguard Newspapers.