English

KIRKUK, IRAQ — Islamic State militants usually speak to the media through their propaganda machine against a backdrop of bombs, mortars and sniper fire. To better understand what is happening in IS-controlled territories, VOA visits a detention center in Kirkuk, Iraq, to meet a self-described former […]

This holiday is always celebrated on 9 February, the Feast day of Saint Maron. History of the Feast Day of St. Maron All that we know about Maron, the spiritual father of the Maronites comes from Theodoret, the bishop of Cyr. In approximately 444 AD, […]

he northern town of Becharri bid farewell on Thursday to mother of Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea. The funeral was attended by President Michel Aoun represented by Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, Speaker Nabih Berri represented by MP Atef Majdalani and Prime Minister Saad Hariri represented […]

The mass celebrating Saint Maroun began on Thursday morning in Mar Maroun Church in Beirut’s Gemmayze, headed by Archbishop Boulos Matar. The mass is attended by President Michel Aoun, Premier Saad Hariri and other officials.

Democratic Gathering Head, MP Walid Joumblatt, contacted on Thursday Lebanese Forces Party Leader, Samir Geagea, expressing his deepest condolences on the passing away of his mother, Mary Geagea

Washington (AFP) – Travel bookings to the United States fell 6.5 percent in late January compared to last year in the wake of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, according to a report Wednesday. The travel restrictions apparently deterred travelers from outside the seven Muslim-majority countries […]

A senior Marada Movement official has slammed the rising Free Patriotic Movement-Lebanese Forces alliance as a “Christian Sykes-Picot Agreement” aimed at eliminating the other Christian political forces in the country. “Their agreement is a Christian Sykes-Picot aimed at splitting gains between the FPM and the […]

White House national security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with Moscow’s ambassador to the United States during the month before President Donald Trump took office, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Citing unnamed current and former U.S. officials, the Post said […]

The naval group led by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier has returned to its home port of Severomorsk following a two-month-long deployment to the eastern Mediterranean where it took part in Moscow’s anti-Daesh operation. Defense analyst Alexander Zhilin told Radio Sputnik that the mission has […]