Sunnis, Shiites clash in Lebanese town

Beirut, June 18 (BNA) - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman met on Tuesday with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton. Talks during the meeting dealt with the current situation in Lebanon and the region, ...

BEIRUT A car bomb targeting a checkpoint near a military airport in an upscale neighborhood of the Syrian capital of Damascus killed 10 soldiers, activists said Monday, as President Bashar Assad's troops pressed ahead with an offensive to regain ...

BEIRUT, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati reiterated Tuesday his appeal for the international community to cooperate with Lebanon in sharing the burden of Syrian refugee influx. Miqati called for imposing certain standards ...

Noam Chomski speaks during an interview with The Daily Star in Beirut, Friday, June 14, 2013. (The Daily Star/Mahmoud Kheir ) BEIRUT: Human beings are destroying themselves, said luminary Noam Chomsky, warning that unrest in Syria could turn into ...

6:19pm BST By BEIRUT (Reuters) - The voice crackling over the Hezbollah radios was clear and authoritative, and the guerrillas poised to attack the Syrian border town of Qusair recognised it immediately. "As I promised you victory before, I pledge ...

BEIRUT, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday discussed with Lebanese officials the plight of Syrian refugees in the country and urged "a political solution to the conflict in Syria." According to a ...

BEIRUT Taking advantage of the chaos of the civil war, Syria's Kurdish minority has carved out a once unthinkable degree of independence in their areas, creating their own police forces, even their own license plates, and exuberantly going public ...

Beirut: An epidemic of measles is sweeping through parts of northern Syria, with at least 7,000 people affected because the ongoing civil war has disrupted vaccination programmes, said on Tuesday."The main factor leading to the worsening of the ...

BEIRUT, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Tuesday handed UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly a memo on the Syrian violations of Lebanese sovereignty. According to a presidential statement, Suleiman delivered to ...