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The fall of rebel-controlled districts of eastern Aleppo to the forces of President Bashar al-Assad is likely to prove a decisive victory in the five-year civil war. The demise has major symbolic significance and leaves the regime and its foreign backers, Russia and Iran, free […]

RAMALLAH, WEST BANK — An activist says two Palestinians held without charges by Israel are “between life and death” after 73 days on a hunger strike. Qadoura Fares of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said on Monday that 19-year-old Anas Shadid and 29-year-old Ahmad Abu Fara […]

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 […]

They never gave up. They never wavered. They never lost hope. Despite fierce opposition, several delays, and tough resistance from the American Administration, some key Congress members, and prominent Lebanese political entities, Gabriel Issa and Tony Haddad did not give up their persistent efforts until […]

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 […]

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. […]