Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

You can tell the coastal city of Tartus is on the side of the Syrian government because everything here is intact. Little waves lap at rocks on a wide, quiet seafront dotted with cafes; boats ferry people back and forth to a nearby island. There […]

Most robots achieve grasping and tactile sensing through motorized means, which can be excessively bulky and rigid. Scientists have now devised a way for a soft robot to feel its surroundings internally, in much the same way humans do. Stretchable optical waveguides act as curvature, […]

BREAKING: Major rebel withdrawal from more Aleppo districts: activists Agence France Presse

BEIRUT: A leading MP from Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement said Monday that talks on forming a new government have made “clear progress” over the last few days. “There is no doubt that the contacts in recent days have pushed matters forward,” MP Ibrahim Kanaan, secretary […]

BEIRUT: Several Arab and Western companies sent representatives to Lebanon to scout for investment opportunities, local media reported Sunday. Al Mustaqbal newspaper said that unidentified companies had drawn up plans to invest in Lebanese businesses following the political breakthrough after President Michel Aoun’s election. Arab […]

DÉCRYPTAGE Scarlett HADDAD | OLJ10/12/2016 La petite phrase du ministre des Affaires étrangères Gebran Bassil sur la possibilité de dissocier les négociations sur un nouveau projet de loi électorale de la formation du gouvernement a ouvert la voie à différentes interprétations. Pour les uns, il […]

President Michel Aoun held phone talks Sunday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to offer him condolences over the victims of a bomb attack that killed at least 25 people inside a Cairo church in the deadliest attack in recent memory on Egypt’s Christian minority. […]

Prime Minister-designate, Saad Hariri, condemned on Sunday the explosion that targeted Cairo’s Coptic cathedral and the twin bombings in Istanbul. “Terrorism has no religion and does not differentiate between a Christian or a Muslim. Terrorists want to kill as many people as possible in addition […]

Hezbollah Party strongly denounced, in an issued statement on Sunday, the “terrorist bombings witnessed by our Arab and Islamic World in the past few hours, which have targeted several cities, from Turkey to Egypt, Somalia, Nigeria and others, causing dozens of fallen victims and injuring […]