Articles by Hala Najjar

Tim Arango entered the city of Mosul, Iraq, on Wednesday with Iraqi special forces soldiers. For the first time in more than two years, residents of eastern Mosul enjoyed a day without the Islamic State. As Iraqi security forces drove the muddy streets of the […]

By Zeina Karam and Philip Issa | AP October 31 BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, filling a post that had been vacant for more than two years and injecting hope that the country’s long-running political paralysis would come […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces have tightened security in downtown Beirut where legislators are to convene to elect a new president. Christian leader Michel Aoun, a former army commander and strong ally of the militant Hezbollah group, is widely expected to win a two-third […]