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The British Embassy announced Thursday that, in a demonstration of “the strength of the enduring UK-Lebanon partnership,” the Fleet flagship of the British Royal Navy will visit Lebanon next week. The visit will conclude a Middle East deployment of HMS OCEAN, which has seen the […]

Iraq said Thursday that its U.S.-backed forces had retaken the airport in Mosul, which Islamic State extremists had controlled since 2014. In a flash on its screen, state television declared, “The Rapid Response Forces and federal police are fully in control of the airport of […]

BEIRUT — Every Sunday, the gymnasium along Beirut’s airport highway echoes with the shouting and laughter of dozens of Syrian children enjoying a rare escape from a grim and confined life in exile. The Sport 4 Development program, run by the U.N. children’s agency, aims to […]

President Michel Aoun received on Thursday at the Baabda Palace a delegation of the Lebanese Banks Association headed by Joseph Tarabay. Talks reportedly featured high over the state’s budget and the country’s banking sector.   Aoun also received head of the Constitutional Council Dr. Issam […]

President Trump wants to hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents and 10,000 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to enforce his executive orders on immigration. It wont be easy. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly was blunt when asked by a member of Congress about […]

Iraqi security forces have recaptured Mosul airport, a key part of the government’s offensive to drive the so-called Islamic State (IS) from the western half of the city. The operation took four hours. IS continued to fire mortars at the airport from further inside the […]

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wants to ensure the U.S. nuclear arsenal is at the “top of the pack,” saying the United States has fallen behind in its weapons capacity. In a Reuters interview, Trump also said China could solve the national security […]

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday spoke positively about a border adjustment tax being pushed by Republicans in Congress as a way to boost exports, but he did not specifically endorse the proposal. Trump, who has lashed out at U.S. companies for moving operations and […]

Am 24. Februar eröffnete Botschafter Martin Huth das Konzert der deutschen Mezzosopranistin Béela Müller gemeinsam mit den libanesischen Philharmonikern unter der Leitung von Harout Fazlian. Das Konzert, das in der Kirche St. Joseph des Peres Jesuites in Achrafieh stattfand, umfasste musikalische Werke von Beethoven, Mahler […]