Bkerkè (Fides) – Der syrische Großmufti, Scheich Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, besuchte am vergangenen 7. Dezember den Libanon, wo er vom neuen Präsidenten Michel Aoun in dessen Residenz in Baabda empfangen wurde. Im Anschluss an den Höflichkeitsbesuch beim Staatsoberhaupt statte er dem maronitischen Patriarchen, Kardinal Boutros […]
Maronite Patriarch Beshara Boutros Rai hoped that a new cabinet will be formed ahead of the Christmas holiday, calling on all factions to support President Michel Aoun in his mission, especially since he became responsible for the unity of the Lebanese people and Lebanon’s welfare […]
Updated 5 p.m. ET The first American to orbit the Earth has died. John Glenn was the last surviving member of the original Mercury astronauts. He would later have a long political career as a U.S. senator, but that didn’t stop his pioneering ways. Glenn […]
Members of the Iraqi forces watch Donald Trump giving a speech after his election win. They are part of the ongoing military operation to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS, which Trump has vowed to destroy. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images To Donald Trump, one […]
The U.S. military believes that some 50,000 Islamic State fighters have been killed since the United States started battling the group more than two years ago, a senior U.S. military official said on Thursday, calling it a “conservative estimate.” The official, who spoke to Pentagon […]
The Israeli military posted on Tuesday to Twitter, a map of southern Lebanon marking Hezbollah positions, infrastructure and armaments along a part of the Israeli border with Lebanon. The map, according to Channel 2 News, features over 200 towns and villages which the party has […]
PENTAGON — The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria intentionally struck a hospital in Mosul Wednesday to protect Iraqi forces from Islamic State fighters inside the building. The coalition said Iraqi forces requested “immediate support” after receiving heavy machine gun fire […]
Syrian President Bashar Assad said the election of President Michel Aoun for Lebanon’s presidency is a victory for Syria as he stressed that Lebanon can not adopt a dissociation policy, Syrian al-Watan daily reported Thursday. “The arrival of Aoun at Lebanon’s presidency is a victory […]
Syria’s army has suspended combat operations in eastern Aleppo, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says. The move is to allow for the evacuation of civilians trapped in the battle zone. Mr Lavrov said some 8,000 people would be taken out. Government forces have retaken 75% […]
A powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked the Northern California coast Thursday morning. The quake occurred under the Pacific Ocean about 100 miles west of Ferndale, near the Oregon border, about 6:50 a.m., the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no reports of injuries or damage. The quake’s epicenter was about […]
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