Last week, Lebanese Army Intelligence arrested Mohammad Haji and Hekmat Idris, two Syrian army defectors in Rashaya, a town south of Beqaa near the Syrian border. News reports suggest that Haji and Idris had fled Syria because they no longer wished to take part in the violence there. While an investigation is said to be […]

BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman called on Hezbollah Monday to avoid intervening in Syria, saying the resources of the resistance belonged to all the Lebanese. “The national capabilities, which are the Army, the state and the resistance, do not belong to a faction or sect,” he added. “They belong to the nation and cannot be biased, […]

A Detroit-area doctor has been charged with bilking the government of tens of millions of dollars by deliberately misdiagnosing patients with cancer and illegally billing Medicare for the treatment. Dr. Farid Fata will remain behind bars until at least Tuesday as a third federal judge considers whether or not to grant him bail. He was […]

The alleged detection by U.S. intelligence agencies of what some officials say are the most serious al-Qaeda attack plots since September 11, 2001, has led to the closure until August 10th of nineteen American embassies across the Middle East. The measure was described by the State Department as one taken “out of an abundance of […]

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday condemned as “disgraceful” the abduction of two Turkish pilots near Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport, saying they were kidnapped in a prearranged and “professional” manner amid “the absence of the state’s security authorities.” Al-Rahi warned that the operation will harm Lebanon’s image, urging state officials to stop being “reckless […]

Most Palestinians trying to go to Lebanon from strife-torn Syria have been denied entry over the past two days, a rights group said on Thursday. "The Lebanese government began on August 6, 2013, to bar Palestinians from entering the country from Syria," New York-based Human Rights Watch said. "Refusing to allow asylum seekers to enter […]

The Obama administration cautioned on Wednesday that the terror threat to western outposts in the Middle East and Africa will not necessarily subside in the wake of Yemen’s claim to have foiled a large-scale plot to attack an important port. As details of the alleged plot emerged from the government in Sana’a, new US drone […]

Billionaire U.S. media mogul Oprah Winfrey says she was the victim of racism on a recent trip to Switzerland when a shop assistant refused to show her a handbag because it was "too expensive." Winfrey was in Zurich for Tina Turner’s wedding in late July when she left her hotel alone and popped into an […]

  كاتب صحفي لبناني. سكن مصر، وعمل في تحرير جريدة " الوطن " ثم " المقطم " و " الأهرام " وأنشأ جريدة " الأخبار " يومية ( سنة 1896 ) فمجلة " الخزانة " سنة 1900 فجريدة " بريد الأحد " أسبوعية. وعاد إلى بيروت، فكان من أعضاء مجلس النواب. وقام برحلة إلى إيطاليا، […]