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Support for Aoun widens days before presidential vote

29 October 2016

BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt announced Friday his support for Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun’s election as president, the latest sign that the former general is headed to win the presidential race in the first round of voting Monday with […]

Lebanese singer and composer Melhem Barakat dies after illness

29 October 2016

BEIRUT: Renowned Lebanese singer and composer Melhem Barakat passed away Friday at the age of 71 after a battle with cancer. Barakat is the father of four children including Majed, Waed and Ghinwa from his ex-wife Randa Azar and Melhem Jr. from his second marriage […]

Lebanon’s candidate for UNESCO chief sparks controversy

29 October 2016

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s failure to endorse former Minister and prominent academic Ghassan Salameh’s nomination for the post of Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has sparked controversy among the country’s political elite particularly after the Cabinet decided to nominate Vera Khoury […]

MP Daher to LBCI: I prefer Aoun over Frangieh as Lebanon’s next president

29 October 2016

“How could Mufti of Tripoli Sheikh Malek Chaar endorse Frangieh’s candidacy while Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai did not do so yet?,” Daher added. Daher’s comments were made during an interview with LBCI Nharkom Said TV show whereby he said that the relationship with the […]

REPORT: Election of Aoun as president leaves MP vacant post in Keserwan district

29 October 2016

Once head of Change and Reform bloc MP Michel Aoun is elected as president, his parliamentary seat in the district of keserwan will automatically become vacant, just as MP Robert Fadel’s parliamentary seat, which became vacant in Tripoli when he resigned from Parliament. In this […]

Yazidi IS Victim Stunned by Award, Hopes Survival Story Inspires Others

29 October 2016

Lamiya Hachi Bashar, whose face was severely disfigured in a land mine explosion while fleeing Islamic State enslavement, never dreamed her story of survival would inspire others. The Yazidi woman said she was stunned after she was named Thursday as one of the recipients of […]

Thousands of Iraqi Civilians Abducted, Hundreds Executed in Battle for Mosul

29 October 2016

GENEVA — The U.N. human rights office reports Iraqi civilians are increasingly being used as pawns by Islamic State militants in their battle for Mosul. The agency says it has received credible reports of hundreds of executions, mass abductions, and the use of civilians as human […]

Experts Doubt Many High-level IS Leaders Are Staying in Mosul

29 October 2016

There is a growing sense that by the time Iraqi forces finish wresting control of the key city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters, few if any of the terror group’s top leaders will be there. The consensus by a variety of current and former […]

Allies Resist US Plan to Attack Raqqa

29 October 2016

A proposed U.S.-backed offensive on the Islamic State terror group’s Syrian stronghold of Raqqa is encountering problems, because Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insists the Syrian-Kurdish YPG — the only militia currently up to the task — can play no part. America’s European allies also […]

Iran-backed Shi’ite militias to join assault near Mosul on new front

29 October 2016

Iraqi Shi’ite militias backed by Iran said on Friday they would soon join the fight against Islamic State on a new front west of Mosul, a move which could block any retreat by the jihadists into Syria but might alarm Turkey and the United States. […]

ISIL ‘using thousands as human shields’ in Iraq’s Mosul

29 October 2016

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant appears to be using tens of thousands of people as “human shields” in and around Mosul, where Iraqi forces are waging an offensive aimed at retaking the country’s second biggest city. The UN human rights office also said […]

Yemen’s Houthis accused of firing missile at Mecca

29 October 2016

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been accused of targeting Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca by launching a long-range ballistic missile from 500km over the border. The rebels and their ally Iran vehemently denied the allegation on Friday. The Saudi-led military coalition – which is backing […]

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