NEW YORK — Rex Tillerson, the nominee of President-elect Donald Trump for secretary of state, is severing ties with Exxon Mobil through a $180 million retirement package one week before his Senate confirmation hearing begins. RELATED LINKS Senate Democrats want more info from Trump’s Cabinet […]
Islamic State propagandists posted a 42-minute video online Wednesday that included the drowning in a fish tank of an alleged Iraqi spy and the beheading of another, as well as drone footage of more than a dozen suicide bombings in northern Iraq undertaken by teenage […]
ISTANBUL (AP) — Police increased security around Istanbul on Wednesday and detained some 20 people with suspected links to the deadly New Year’s Eve night club attack as the hunt for the gunman stretched into a fourth day. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the […]
Last year, NPR’s Ari Shapiro visited Toledo, Ohio, to talk to refugees settling there from Syria’s civil war. Recently, he returned to Toledo to check in on the community. When we first met Omar Al-Awad and his family in the fall of 2015, they were […]
Prime Minister Saad Hariri received this evening at the Grand Serail a delegation of Lebanese businessmen in Jeddah, in the presence of the Consul General of Lebanon in Jeddah Ziad Atallah and the head of the Lebanese Saudi Business Council Raouf Abu Zaki. At the […]
“Change and Reform” parliamentary bloc on Tuesday called for a “national plan to confront terrorism” in the wake of Istanbul attack”. Justice Minister, Salim Jreisati said following the weekly meeting in Rabieh that the bloc hailed the cabinet’s performance after Istanbul attack. “Lebanese authorities have […]
Prime Minister Saad Hariri declared Tuesday an hour public mourning from 2 pm until 3 pm in the afternoon, to pay respects for the victims who were killed in the terrorist attack that targeted Istanbul on New Year’s Eve. He also called for amending the […]
As soon as the oil file returned to the cabinet’s agenda, Energy Minister Cesar Abi Khalil called on the committee managing the petroleum sector in Lebanon for a meeting to recount the measures that had been already taken. The meeting also aimed at setting […]
Air strikes on a building in northern Syria used by an insurgent group formerly known as the Nusra Front had killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens more on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The British-based Observatory said it was […]
The gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day in an attack claimed by Islamic State appears to have been well versed in guerrilla warfare and may have trained in Syria, a newspaper report and a security source said on […]
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