Late on Friday, photos of an interfaith couple who got married in a Lebanese church went viral, causing quite the stir on social media. It was later revealed that the church wedding came days after the couple had also held an Islamic wedding ceremony. According to Annahar, Marwa Fawaz and Boutrous Kattoura met and fell […]

Lebanon has taken delivery of their first M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles from the United States. This is a significant boost for the country’s armed forces who are engaged in a complex and largely forgotten front in the fight against ISIS and reflects otherwise expanding American military involvement in the country. On Aug. 14, 2017, […]

Israeli media are reporting that Iran is building a factory in northwest Syria to manufacture long-range rockets. The reports feature satellite images showing a site under construction in northwest Syria near the Mediterranean coastal town of Baniyas that purportedly could be used to produce and store the weapons. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned […]

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso: 18 people including three Lebanese were killed Monday when suspected Islamic extremists opened fire at a popular Turkish restaurant in Burkina Faso’s capital. Many of the victims were children dining with their families on a Sunday night at the Aziz Istanbul restaurant when horror struck once again in Ouagadougou. At least 22 […]

CIA Director Mike Pompeo claimed Venezuela is overrun with Iranians, Hezbollah, Cubans and Russians in response to questions about Donald Trump’s statements about US military intervention. Pompeo appeared on Fox News Sunday where he responded to comments made by President Donald Trump on Friday, in which he said there was “a possible military option” for […]

The evacuation of a group of Syrian rebels and refugees from a border enclave in Lebanon back into Syrian territory started on Monday, Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar TV reported. About 300 rebels from a group called Saraya Ahl al-Sham as well as about 3,000 refugees are to leave Lebanon under a deal that followed an assault by […]

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah urged  Sunday the  political leaders to recognize  the survival of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government. Addressing a rally on Sunday,  he advised Lebanon’s government to normalize ties with its war-torn neighbor. Lebanon’s political parties are split over whether to restore ties  with the Syrian leader. The Iranian backed Hezbollah militant group Hezbollah has invested heavily in […]

Beirut – Lebanese Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil telephoned on Friday his Kuwaiti counterpart Sabah al-Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah to follow up on the al-Abdali terrorist cell, the members of which had received training from Lebanon’s “Hezbollah” group. Bassil and his counterpart discussed the official complaint that Kuwait had filed against the party’s involvement in the cell, […]

BEIRUT, Lebanon  – Implementation of a deal for the return of a group of Syrian refugees and rebels to Syria from Lebanon was delayed on Saturday, with a military news outlet run by the Iranian backed  Lebanese group Hezbollah saying it was due to “a logistical problem”. Some 300 Syrian rebels from a group called […]

By Lisa Barrington BEIRUT – Lebanon – Hezbollah and its allies are pressing the Lebanese state to normalise relations with President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria, testing Lebanon’s policy of “dissociation” from the Syrian conflict and igniting a political row. Calls for closer ties with the Syrian government, including on refugee returns and military operations […]