The Daily Star | Israel installs spying device along Lebanon border The Daily Star KFAR KILA, Lebanon: An Israeli military unit installed Monday an apparent spying device near the barbed wire fence marking the border with Lebanon. The device was placed facing the border village of Kfar Kila. Residents saw the Israeli vehicle driving ... |
Aljazeera.com | Gunmen shoot policeman in Lebanon's Tripoli Aljazeera.com The violence in Lebanon has been fuelled by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, where mostly Sunni rebels are battling to topple Alawite President Bashar al-Assad. Salam's predecessor Najib Mikati announced in December that he had given the army full ... Gunmen kill soldier in northern Lebanon |
SBS (blog) | Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugees in Lebanon SBS (blog) Angelina Jolie, Hollywood actress and special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, recently travelled to Lebanon to highlight the plight of Syrian refugees. The Oscar winner spent time with five siblings, forced to fend for ... Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugees in Lebanon - watch the emotional video here! |
The Daily Star | Lebanon takes preventative measures against Ebola The Daily Star BEIRUT: Medical teams examined arriving passengers at Beirut airport Monday as part of the Health Ministry's measures to prevent the transmission of the deadly Ebola virus. “The medical teams are examining the passengers coming from Africa ... |
BBC News | Soldiers killed by Lebanon car bomb BBC News A suicide car bomber has attacked a Lebanese army checkpoint near the Syrian border, killing three soldiers, reports say. Four more soldiers were reported wounded in the blast, on the outskirts of the town of Arsal. Tension has been high since the ... Syrian army takes two villages near Lebanon Suicide bomber kills 3 soldiers in Lebanon Car bomb kills at least three soldiers in Lebanon |
The Daily Star | How Syria's civil war threatens Lebanon's fragile peace Los Angeles Times Three years into the Syrian civil war, neighboring Lebanon is fraying at the seams. Over the last year, as Lebanese Sunni Muslim jihadis and their counterparts in the Shiite militia Hezbollah fought each other in Syria, at least 16 car bombs detonated ... Army dismantles car bomb in east Lebanon Wounded Syrian rebels recover in Lebanon border town Syria rebels lick their wounds in Lebanon border town |
US urges Lebanon not to drill for gas in disputed waters The Daily Star BEIRUT: A senior U.S. official advised Lebanon not to drill in disputed waters off its coast until a deal on maritime boundaries is reached, adding that Washington was working on ways to resolve competing claims over the territory. “I think the most ... |
Dear Lebanon, where is my father? The Daily Star My paternal grandfather, a native of Hadjin, in Cilician Armenia, survived the genocide and found safe haven in Lebanon. He married another survivor, only to lose her to a disease rampant among Armenians in Lebanon's refugee camps. She bore him two ... |
Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett filming in Lebanon today Dayton Daily News For the second time in less than six months Hollywood has come to Lebanon. “Carol,” a feature film starring Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett that is based on a short story set in the 1950s in New York City, was filmed in Lebanon on Monday at the ... |
Lebanon must address its own health if it promotes health tourism The National I still can't get over the tourism minister Michel Pharaon's suggestion that Lebanon's tourism future lies in convincing sick Arabs to get treatment in Lebanese hospitals then presumably recuperate at their leisure, availing themselves of all the ... |