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An Ohio State University student was shot dead by police after he plowed into pedestrians with a car and then stabbed multiple people with a butcher’s knife at the OSU campus in Columbus this morning, officials said. The scene is now secure, officials said. Eleven […]

The years-long standoff between government forces and rebel fighters in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo appears to be breaking in favor of the Syrian army. For much of Syria’s five-year civil war, forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have carried out relentless attacks and […]

Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Gebran Bassil, relayed a message from the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, to Brazilian President Michel Tamer, during a meeting at Sao Paolo’s Governor’s Palace on Sunday, which included an official invitation to visit Lebanon. In his message, Aoun […]

MP Ibrahim Kanaan of the Free Patriotic Movement has stressed the importance of the reconciliation between the FPM and the Lebanese Forces, noting that it aims to prevent “encroachment on the rights of Christians.” “A lot of people thought that we forged an agreement only […]

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri announced Sunday that the situations in the country “started to improve” after his appointment as PM-designate and Michel Aoun’s election as president. “The convention represents a new beginning for al-Mustaqbal Movement, which has a project for the country and is looking […]

MP Elie Marouni of the Kataeb bloc has stressed that his party will stand by newly-elected President Michel Aoun in order to “rebuild Lebanon.” “We in Kataeb will stand hand in hand by the president of the Lebanese republic, General Michel Aoun, in order to […]

The announcement this week by Syria’s embattled military that it will form an all-volunteer unit is an indication that the government is struggling in its fight against rebels and the Islamic State group, analysts say. “The Syrian regime is running low on manpower,” said Syrian […]

Beirut’s lone communist inspired bar toasts the life of Fidel Castro. LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Fidel Castro is being remembered all over the world, as far afield as the Lebanese capital Beirut. There, NPR’s Alison Meuse found a shrine to the heyday of Lebanon’s Communist Party. […]

For years, Americans have been eager to visit Cuba, not just for its Caribbean warmth, but to seek out the roots of the island’s music, to watch its films, to thumb through its books and meet its writers. Fidel Castro’s death Friday has again spiked […]