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Here’s how Earth and the Moon look from Mars, and we’re not sure what to make of it If you have aspirations to become a Red Planet colonizer some day, we now have an idea of how Earth and the moon look from Mars so […]

Moscow (AFP) – Russian military officials on Tuesday slammed US-led coalition action against Islamic State jihadists in Syria as having had “less than zero” impact, and claimed that a US air strike killed 20 Syrian civilians this month. Russia’s involvement in the war-torn country since […]

The United Nations chief expressed concern to the Security Council that Iran may have violated an arms embargo by supplying weapons and missiles to Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah, according to a confidential report, seen by Reuters on Sunday. The second bi-annual report, due to be […]

Lebanese citizen Ismail H., 37, was on Tuesday found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in the Wadi Hmeid region east of the Bekaa border town of Arsal, State-run National News agency reported. “The corpse was transferred to the al-Rahma field hospital in […]

When Palestinian Fouad Abu Khaled fled Syria’s war in 2013, he sought refuge among his own, looking for solidarity among Palestinian refugees based in Lebanon’s Shatila camp. But instead he found a community already struggling to get by and sometimes resentful of new arrivals who […]

Navy Capt Jeff Davis said there are signs of weakness and low morale among the Islamist militants fighting in Mosul. Islamic State (Isis) group’s days in Mosul “are numbered” as Iraqi troops, backed by US-led coalition forces, continue to gain territory and consolidate their gains […]

Few days after former Secretary-general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon expressed his concern regarding the fact that Tehran might have violated an arms embargo by supplying weapons and missiles to Lebanese Shi’ite group so-called Hezbollah, the topic is set to be discussed by the […]

A Lebanese-Saudi summit is scheduled for this afternoon in Riyadh between President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, and the Saudi monarch, Salman Ben Abdel Aziz. The summit will be preceded by extended talks between the two parties. The President of the Republic began the activities […]

Thomas J. Barrack Jr. drew worldwide attention for bailing out Michael Jackson when the singer’s Neverland Ranch was on the brink of foreclosure. A couple years later, Barrack’s purchase of Miramax studios with actor Rob Lowe and other partners vaulted him into the Hollywood elite. Barrack […]