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The Internal Security Forces arrested three men Tuesday believed linked to a drug smuggling operation to Saudi Arabia that led to a ban on Lebanon produce to the kingdom, a … Read More

Saudi Arabia’s flagship tourism project developer, The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC), has raised a 14.12 billion-riyal ($3.77 billion) ‘green’ loan from four Saudi banks for 16 new hotels, Chief … Read More

Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that Israel is committing the crime of “apartheid” by seeking to maintain Jewish “domination” over Palestinians and its own Arab population, an explosive allegation fiercely … Read More

Egyptian officials say the Palestinian Authority plans to call off its first elections in 15 years, citing Israel’s refusal to allow voting in east Jerusalem.

American and Iranian warships had a tense encounter in the Gulf earlier this month, the first such incident in about a year amid wider turmoil in the region over Tehran’s … Read More

Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai is set to resume his mediation attempts aimed at speeding up the formation of a new government desperately needed to rescue Lebanon from total economic … Read More

Lebanon registered 29 more coronavirus deaths and 642 new cases, the Health Ministry said Monday.

Hussein al-Khaled and his family have lived in a makeshift hut in Lebanon for a decade since fleeing the war in neighboring Syria, but this year COVID and economic collapse … Read More

The Palestinian leadership will convene later this week to discuss whether to postpone next month’s elections if Israel does not allow voting in east Jerusalem, where days of violence have … Read More

When Lebanese took to the street to protest against government corruption and the failing economy, most Western governments rushed to pledge their support for the popular uprising and echoed their … Read More