Tehran – An Iranian man, converted from Islam to Christianity, was sentenced to ten years in prison for "crimes against state security": the defendant is guilty of distributing copies of the Gospel in the country. Mohammad-Hadi Bordbar, known as Mostafa, a native of the city of Rasht, was accused of conspiracy and sentenced. As reported […]

President Michel Suleiman on Thursday expressed "grave concern" over the use of chemical weapons in Syria and condemned the firing of rockets from Lebanon at Israel as a "violation of Resolution 1701 and Lebanese sovereignty." The president said that if confirmed the attacks would totally be in violation of “human values and principles.” Suleiman voiced […]

It didn’t take long after last week’s car bomb in Al-Roueiss for Hezbollah to lay out its plan of attack. The group immediately announced a retaliatory campaign against Sunni targets under the guise of targeting so-called “takfiris” in Lebanon. Hezbollah-allied media have specified by name the areas where the group is likely to launch operations […]

Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, the soldier convicted of giving a trove of secret U.S. documents to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday in the largest public breach of classified data in history. The judge, Col. Denise Lind, also demoted him to private and dishonorably discharged him from the […]

In a tiny town snuggled about halfway between Nabatiyeh and Bint Jbeil, politics, tradition, and finances take their toll on a local NGO. The Association for a Better Society (ABS), based in the largely pro-Amal town of Souaneh, has plans to renovate a park, host inter-sectarian dialogue sessions, and increase the size of their multilingual […]

A Canadian man who used to live in Dearborn is being mourned in metro Detroit’s Lebanese-American communities after he was killed in a terrorist attack in a Beirut suburb in Lebanon. Hussein Ghamlouch, 52, who was in Beirut to get married to a woman there, was one of at least 27 people killed Thursday in […]

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 […]