The threat of Islamic State has crossed the borders of Syria to neighboring Lebanon, making Christians there arm themselves to defend their land and families from the extremists. RT goes to the Syrian-Lebanese border, to meet the militias. More than 20 people have been killed in northern Lebanon in clashes between the army and […]

  BEIRUT, Lebanon — In some of the worst spillover clashes from the Syrian civil war to strike neighboring Lebanon, fighting raged Sunday in the northern city of Tripoli between the Lebanese Army and Sunni Islamist militants. Eighteen people, including six soldiers, have died in the battles, which began Friday. The fight in Tripoli may […]

  BEIRUT: Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai said Friday that some political parties in the country wanted to change the country’s power-sharing governance formula between Muslims and Christians, and expressed his strong opposition to the idea. “MPs did not elect a president, because they are waiting for a signal from certain states,” said Rai, who is […]

  The Qatari envoy who is in the outskirts of Arsal to negotiate in the case of kidnapped soldiers by extremist groups since last August, received on Friday the list of demands of the abductees. According to LBCI: “The Qatari envoy, who is in the outskirts of Arsal, received the list of demands of the […]

 Ben Winsor

ISIS militants drove 600 Shia, Christian and Yazidi male prisoners into the middle of the desert, lined them up along the edge of a ravine, and executed them at point blank range, according to a report by Human Rights Watch released today. 

The inmates, taken from a local prison, were forced to count themselves as they lined up before members of the jihadist militant group opened fire on them with machine guns. 

Human Rights Watch says it spoke to nine survivors of the massacre. They told the organization they made it out alive by rolling into the ravine and pretending to be dead, or were shielded by the bodies of other prisoners who fell on top of them.

BEIRUT: The families of the Lebanese captives held by Nusra Front and ISIS have given the government a 48 hours before they will escalate their protests after meeting with Prime Minister Tamam Salam at the Grand Serail Thursday evening. Speaking on behalf of the families of the 27 Lebanese soldiers and policemen being held captive […]

  State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr on Thursday filed terror charges against the dangerous detainee Ahmed Miqati and 17 others. "The military judiciary has received the terrorist detainee Ahmed Salim Miqati, 46, who is one of the top cadres of the ISIL (Islamic State) group and goes by the noms de […]

  BEIRUT: “My ambition is what drove me to [enter] the Miss Lebanon competition,” said Saly Greige, newly crowned Miss Lebanon 2014. That ambition proved to be decisive: the 25-year-old beauty got into the finals held this month at the Casino du Liban and beat 13 other contestants to be chosen to hold the crown. […]

  The March 14 forces on Wednesday called on Hizbullah to put an end to “the duality of two armies and two decisions in one country,” noting that attempts to “label the Lebanese as supporters and critics of the army” were refuted by the latest Tripoli battle. “The national solidarity with the army, especially by […]

  BEIRUT: Army Commander Gen. Jean Kahwagi Wednesday vowed to hunt down Islamist militants during a visit to the families of two soldiers killed during the four-day military offensive against jihadists in north Lebanon that ended Monday. “There will be no compromise or truce with the soldier-killers,” Kahwagi said in remarks carried by the state-run […]