Month: December 2016

BERLIN — Several hundred peace activists have started what they say will be a months- long protest march from Berlin to war-ravaged Syria to urge an end to the fighting there. The Civil March for Aleppo set off carrying white flags from Berlin’s former Tempelhof […]

Gunfire was heard Sunday at the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp during the funeral of Fatah Movement official Suleiman Abu al-Nimr, who was killed in a blast Saturday, state-run National News Agency reported. It earlier reported that cautious calm was engulfing the camp after a […]

Minister of Industry, Hussein Hajj Hassan, sponsored on Friday the opening of the International Motor Show in Mastita-Jbeil, in the presence of the Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammed Fateh Ali and dignitaries. The minister hoped that political and security stability will prevail in the new […]

The attempt to sour the relationship between Russia and Turkey, to prevent further rapprochement of the two countries, to trigger a new crisis, failed, according to the spokesman of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ANKARA (Sputnik) — The attempt to drive a wedge between Moscow […]

A Syrian soap-maker who fled Aleppo after the factory he worked in was bombed has set up shop in a Paris suburb, reviving a tradition he says dates back millennia. Hassan Harastani left Syria in 2012, first for Lebanon and then two years later moving […]

NEW YORK — If President-elect Donald Trump wanted to show he planned to obliterate President Barack Obama’s approach to Israel, he might have found his man to deliver that message in David Friedman, his pick for U.S. ambassador. The bankruptcy lawyer and son of an […]

People carry the coffin after funeral prayers for Turkish soldier Goktan Ozupekin, who was killed with 15 others by IS militants in al-Bab, Syria, in Kirklareli , Turkey, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. Share See comments An Islamic State attack in the Syrian town of al-Bab […]

Tributes have poured in from across the world for singer George Michael, who has died at his home at the age of 53. Former Wham! bandmate Andrew Ridgeley said he was “heartbroken at the loss of my beloved friend”, while Sir Elton John mourned a […]

A Russian military Tu-154 plane taking the world-renowned Alexandrov Ensemble, the army’s official choir, to a concert at a Russian air base in Syria, crashed into the Black Sea on Sunday. All 92 passengers and crew on board are feared dead. According to a list […]