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Judge questions Ogero officials in illegal internet case

The head of the state-owned telecommunications company Ogero and two other officials testified Thursday as witnesses in investigations into country’s the unlicensed Internet case. A source told The Daily Star that Mount Lebanon’s Investigative Judge Rami Abdallah questioned Abdel-Moneim Youssef along with Ogero’s IT director […]

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Judge cancels release of former Lebanon MP

Mount Lebanon’s Accusatory Body Thursday rejected a decision to release former MP Hasan Yaacoub on bail, who is accused of being involved in the kidnapping of Hannibal Gadhafi. A source told The Daily Star that the head of the body Judge Elias Eid cancelled a […]

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The ‘sick man’ of the international system

When Francis Fukuyanna declared the “End of History” at the turn of the century, he certainly overlooked the Middle East, where history has had a future – and a bright one indeed. At the beginning of the 20th century, nationalism made headway in the Middle […]

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Second UN report on ISIL

Report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by ISIL (Da’esh) to international peace and security and the range of United Nations efforts in support of Member States in countering the threat I. Introduction 1. In adopting its resolution 2253 (2015) on 17 December 2015, […]

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New Offensive Aims at ISIS’ Heart

Kurdish-led forces are attacking militant positions north of the Islamic State’s de facto capital, Raqqa, Syria. The Times correspondent Rukmini Callimachi explains how the fall of Raqqa could incite sectarian tensions.