Month: March 2021

Angry demonstrators blocked key roads across Lebanon Monday morning, in the largest coordinated protest against the deteriorating economic condition.

From videos of deadly air strikes to jihadist takeovers, Al-Mutez Billah’s YouTube page served as a digital archive of the Syrian war until automated takedown software in 2017 erased it … Read More

The Lebanese pound was trading at LL10,350 to the dollar on the black market Monday, off record low it hit over the weekend.

Yemen’s Houthi forces fired drones and missiles at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry on Sunday, including a Saudi Aramco facility at Ras Tanura vital to petroleum exports, in … Read More

Two protesters were killed by gunshot wounds to the head in Myanmar Monday, witnesses said, while shops, factories and banks were closed in the main city Yangon as part of … Read More

Syria’s decade-long war has left more than 380,000 people dead and forced millions into exile.

After a decade of unfathomable violence and human tragedy that has made Syria the defining war of the early 21st century, the fighting has tapered off but the suffering hasn’t.

In a wide-ranging interview aired Sunday, Harry and Meghan described painful palace discussions about the color of their son’s skin, losing royal protection and the intense pressures that led the … Read More