Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

Turkey has declared a national day of mourning, one day after two explosions in Istanbul killed at least 38 people and wounded many others. The blasts rocked a huge football stadium late Saturday. Witnesses and authorities said the attacks — a car bombing and a […]

An explosion took place near Cairo’s Coptic Cathedral on Sunday leaving dozens killed and injured. At least 25 people died and 35 more were injured in an explosion outside St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, Egyptian Health Minister Ahmed Rady said Sunday. Speaking on […]

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s daily newspaper, As-Safir, will stop publication at the end of 2016 after 40 years of operations, in the latest sign of the growing crisis facing publishers worldwide amid a drop in circulation and lower advertising revenues. The newspaper’s publisher, Talal Salman, informed Friday […]

Scarlett Haddad, she alone symbolizes our reason to exist, us as the team of Odiaspora. The only French journalist who has been able to carry the voice of General Aoun during all the years of resistance among a horde of corrupt and well-thinking journalists. Lots […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump moved closer to nominating Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of State on Saturday, a decision that would bring a business leader with close ties to Russia into the Cabinet. Trump has privately signaled that he plans […]

MANAMA, Bahrain — Drawing the U.S. deeper into the Syria conflict, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Saturday he is sending 200 more troops to accelerate the push on the Islamic State’s self-declared capital of Raqqa. RELATED LINKS What’s next for U.S. involvement in Syria? The […]

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other top diplomats are in Paris in a fresh attempt to find solutions for Syria’s nearly six-year-old war that has claimed the lives of more than 300,000 people. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault hosted the meeting in the […]

In the battle for Mosul, Islamic State fighters who aren’t killed are usually taken away for questioning by Iraqi or Kurdish intelligence. But there are also local Iraqis accused of helping ISIS — and they’re put through a judicial process of sorts. One such case […]

120 competitors, including students, authors, religious men, politicians, and journalists, participated in the fourth edition of an Arabic dictation competition held at the Library hall at the Parliament, in cooperation with the Antonine University. The dictation, aired by LBCI and hosted by Bassam Barrack, aims […]