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Sport and Youth Minister Mohammed Fneish of Hizbullah stressed Sunday that Hizbullah’s military role in the face of Israel complements that of the Lebanese army. “The Resistance enjoys the awareness and preparedness to pursue the Israeli enemy wherever its threat is present, in harmony with […]

MP Ibrahim Kanaan said on Sunday during a conference held by the Free Patriotic Movement on municipalities in Sin el Fil that in order for Taef Accord to be applied, one must first decree a new electoral law that preserves equity of representation and expanded […]

Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister, FPM chief, Gebran Bassil, called on Sunday for the adoption of policies that encourage refugees to return to their country, especially that several areas were safe today in Syria, adding that any Syrian who goes to Syria must lose his […]

U.S. has ‘unwavering’ commitment to NATO, Pence says February 18, 2017 at 5:05 PM EST At an annual security conference in Munich, Germany, today, Vice President Mike Pence said the U.S. commitment to NATO is “unwavering.” Pence also said that the U.S. would hold Russia […]

Malaka Gharib Twitter Shanghai, China (2012) Courtesy of Martin Roemers Can you capture the energy of a city in just one image? That’s the idea behind Metropolis, a book of photos of the world’s megacities by Dutch photographer Martin Roemers. The images illustrate the rapid […]

As reports emerge about links between Trump aides and Russia, Scott Simon speaks with Jane Harman, president of the Wilson Center, about the current relationship between the two countries. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: President Obama said he’d reset relations with Russia and once promised the Russian […]

Reduced US engagement in NATO will undermine the military alliance and possibly mean its end, the bloc’s former secretary general, Andres Fogh Rasmussen, told Sputnik on Saturday. MUNICH (Sputnik) — The former NATO chief described Washington as the only player within the alliance that had enough military strength […]

Police in north Lebanon arrested a Syrian national suspected of having links to a terror group, the National News Agency reported on Saturday. The police patrol arrested, Sami Ahmed Salloum, a Syrian, in Akkar’s town of al-Ayoun for having ties to terror groups, NNA said. […]

Syrian warplanes bombarded a besieged rebel-held district of Homs, southern Deraa and insurgent areas in Damascus’s outskirts on Saturday in what appeared to be intensifying assaults in the west of the country, monitors said. Much of western Syria is covered by an ongoing but shaky […]