Middle East Conflict & Tragedy News

Officials from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) tasked with prosecuting suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri visited Lebanon last week, the court’s Defense Office said Wednesday. François Roux, head of the Defense Office, and his team...

In an interview with An-Nahar newspaper published on Saturday, Interior Minister Ziad Baroud said that Internal Security Forces’ Director General Ashraf Rifi had undermined the instructions Baroud had given to him, when following a dispute, Rifi accused Police Brigadier Antoine...

An-Nahar newspaper reported on Saturday that leaders within the March 14 alliance met on Friday night and addressed their expectations that discussions over the Ministerial Statement would take a “long” time, particularly in light of certain parties’ insistence on extending...

During a dinner held in the honor of the General Union of the Assembly of Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Mediterranean, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that he will serve all of Lebanon, adding that “none of the...

Judicial Police Commander General Anwar Yehya told Al-Manar television on Friday that evidence in the death of a mother, Grace Jalkh, and her three daughters in Bhersaf-Metn on Wednesday night points, until now, to a suicide. According to Yehya, the...

The pro-Israel lobby and antisemitism C4's Dispatches has been branded 'antisemitic', but surely Britain's Jewish community can cope with reasoned scrutiny? Lobby correspondent: Peter Oborne, presenter of Channel 4's Dispatches documentary Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, in Westminster,...

Following the Ministerial Statement Committee’s meeting at the Grand Serail on Friday, Information Minister Tarek Mitri said that “no clause is more important than the other” and that a large part of the statement’s economic chapter has been established.

Attorney General Eric Holder is poised to release a long-delayed report prepared in 2004 by the Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailing the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used by the CIA and some of its contractors against so-called...