Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

NNA – Industry Minister, Hussein Hajj Hassan, sponsored on Saturday a ceremony held by the Municipality of Britel to honour students who passed their official examinations. In his address, he referred to the current economic crisis, caused by “the policies in Lebanon in recent years,” […]

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations blasted Russia for calling the U.N. Security Council into emergency session late Saturday to review an apparently errant U.S. bombing run that may have killed dozens of Syrian government troops. Samantha Power, speaking to reporters on her way […]

U.S. officials on Friday would not confirm the authenticity of the video. But if the slurs were uttered by supposed allies in the fight against IS, it is “unacceptable and reprehensible,” Kirby told reporters. The U.S. Defense Department has previously acknowledged its special operations teams […]

LONDON — Around 75,000 refugees are stranded in a no-man’s land on the Syria-Jordan border, and hundreds are dying because they are cut off from food and medical aid, Amnesty International said Friday. The alert came ahead of two high-profile summits in the United States […]

CAIRO — Libya has resumed oil exports for the first time since military forces under the command of army General Khalifa Haftar, loyal to the parliament in Tobruk, recaptured oil installations west of Benghazi this past week. Meanwhile, Fayez Saraj, who heads Libya’s U.N.-brokered national […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In one of his last major appearances on the world stage, President Barack Obama will try to define how his leadership has made the planet safer and more prosperous when he gives his farewell speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — With each scripted speech, shift in policy and attempt to whitewash his past behavior, Donald Trump is brazenly betting that voters now settling on their choice for president are willing to shove aside all that came before his late-in-the-campaign recalibration. It’s a […]

U.S.-led coalition air strikes reportedly killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, endangering a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire and prompting an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting as tensions between Moscow and Washington escalated. The United States military said the coalition stopped the attacks against what it […]

Russia’s military says rebel groups have increased attacks in Syria despite a ceasefire and has urged the US to act or be responsible for its collapse. Russian generals said attacks by rebels, some US-backed, had increased sharply over the past 24 hours. Gen Viktor Poznikhir […]