Lebanon

Lebanon's Islamic Group expressed its support for the protests held against the "the political elite's indifference towards citizens' hardships." The group's political bureau issued a statement yesterday welcoming the...

Tens of thousands of protesters all over the world were on the streets at the weekend in support of the people of Lebanon and their anti-government demonstrations. From London...

An internet campaign to raise funds for a Palestinian refugee filmed selling pens in Beirut with his daughter asleep on his shoulder has raised more than $100,000 within hours....

The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah and its Christian political allies have boycotted a cabinet meeting yesterday, highlighting the growing political tension that has paralysed the country's national unity government...

The Association of Muslim Scholars in Lebanon said on Tuesday that calls to topple the government are a serious matter and are orchestrated by the Syrian and Iranian regimes...

Egyptian authorities have imposed fresh restrictions on people traveling to nine countries. In a Wednesday statement, the Interior Ministry said Egyptians traveling to Yemen, Jordan, Malaysia, South Korea, Guinea,...

Tens of thousands of protesters have joined the "You Stink" campaign to push the Lebanese government to take action to solve a towering waste management problem. The grievances are...

Hundreds of Lebanese protestors started an open-ended sit-in near the government headquarters in Beirut, on Saturday evening, to protest perceived corruption in the government and an ongoing sanitation crisis....

The Anti-Terrorism Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office warned Israeli tourists against visiting more than 40 countries, including Turkey, in fear that they could be subjected to attacks by...

It makes you think when a Syrian official comments on the Douma massacres, in which hundreds were killed last week, and says that they did not actually occur. According...

The latest ranking of world universities does not include any Arab institution in the top 150 for 2015. The annual list of the top 500 universities is prepared by...

Palestinian refugees who have fled the violence in Syria and are now in neighbouring Lebanon hold the international community and UNRWA responsible for failing to make adequate provision for...

Some 28 per cent of the Arab youth are unemployed, the highest rate in the world, Alkhaleejonline.net said a new study revealed. According to the report issued by the...

Negotiations between an Iranian delegation and Syrian opposition groups aimed at extending a two-day ceasefire in three strategic Syrian towns – which expired on Friday – have failed, according...

Israeli security forces have arrested a man with dual Swedish-Lebanese citizenship on suspicion of gathering intelligence on behalf of Hezbollah. In a statement released on Sunday, Israel's Shin Bet...

A senior US delegation is scheduled to arrive in Israel early in September to discuss strengthening intelligence cooperation between Tel Aviv and Washington. A senior official in the delegation...

I was handed an aerial photograph of Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan the other day, which is home to 100,000 Syrians; it's a sprawling testimony to the human misery...

Daesh, the self-declared "Islamic State", will most likely not exist before the end of this year. Its effects, however, will last for a long, long time. Insurgencies are usually...

Members of the Arab Peace Initiative are to meet in 5 August to discuss the escalation in violence and Israeli actions in occupied Jerusalem, the Anadolu Agency reported. Palestinian...

The National Working Group for Palestinians in Syria has said that Syria's neighbouring countries continue to prevent the entry of Palestinian refugees fleeing the ongoing conflict in Syria despite...

Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour has said he will be leaving Lebanon, where he currently resides, after receiving concrete information of "an assassination attempt on his life". The politician...

Palestinian refugees from Syria have been warned against leaving the confines of the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain Al-Helwa in Tyre, Lebanon except for urgent necessity because they might...

The World Justice Project (WJP) has ranked the Egyptian judiciary 86th out of 102 countries surveyed in the latest index which measures the rule of law based on the...

Leaked videos showing the torture of Islamist inmates in Lebanon's notorious Roumieh prison have stoked political controversy in the country, Arabi 21 reported on Sunday. Several Lebanese officials have...

Lebanese author Elias Khoury speaks to MEMO: "It's more interesting to read books than it is to live in them." Elias Khoury has lived through Black September, the Six...

The leader of the Shia militia group in Lebanon threatened on Friday that "millions" of Israelis would be displaced if a war between both sides erupted, AFP reported. Hezbollah...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights revealed on Monday that it has documented the deaths of 6,657 individuals in Syria during May 2015, including 51 Hezbollah fighters, 2,109 foreigners,...

Maya Louay El Sheikh Issa loves bananas. Back home in Syria her and her brother found a secret stash in the kitchen cupboard and ate them all. She also...

UNRWA has been forced to suspend its monthly cash assistance for housing to Palestinian refugee families from Syria living in Lebanon. Starting from July this year, more than 43,000...

Fatah expressed its refusal to intervene or comment on an Egyptian court's decision to refer the papers of Palestinian martyrs and prisoners to the Grand Mufti to consider the...

This same hand that hung your picture fondly and proudly on my office wall, considering you an icon and symbol of the resistance against the Zionist enemy is the...

Israel has revealed that it will bomb civilian areas of South Lebanon in any future war with Hezbollah, a senior Israeli official warned. The intelligence official showed the New...