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The Lebanese Army bombarded on Tuesday the suspicious movements of gunmen with heavy artillery at the Wadi El-Kheil and Kherbet Younine in the outskirts of the border town of Arsal. The sound of bombardment has been heard in North Bekaa and Hermel villages.

The Lebanese General Security arrested two Syrians identified only by their initials as Aa. K. and A. K. accused of working with terrorist groups. During the interrogations, they confessed to working with others to transfer fund to terrorist groups.   They were both referred to […]

Warplanes from Russia’s lone aircraft carrier and a missile frigate struck targets in Syria on Tuesday, bombing areas southwest of the embattled city of Aleppo, as Syrian government aircraft renewed barrel bomb attacks on the city itself. The first-ever Russian strikes from the Mediterranean-based carrier […]

The Lebanese army denied Tuesday that the vehicles that appeared in Hizbullah’s military parade in Syria’s Qusayr were ever part of the army’s arsenal. “Some media outlets have published pictures of military vehicles. The Army Command notes that the aforementioned vehicles were not taken from […]

The United States has announced that it has launched a probe to determine whether Hizbullah used U.S.-made tanks or armored vehicles in the “military parade” that it recently held in the Syrian border region of Qusayr. “I saw the social media report’s very grainy photographs… […]

The Syrian President Bashar Assad said that the Syrian government cannot predict the actions of the US President-elect Donald Trump, but will welcome him if he intends to fight terrorism. Russian military aviation at Khmeimim airbase in Syria © Sputnik/ Dmitriy Vinogradov Trump: US to […]

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri deserves credit for his politically-incorrect, yet progressive, statement Monday. While receiving the new student government of the American University of Beirut (AUB), he called for the legislation of a new electoral law based on proportional representation and a women’s quota. “Even […]

The State Department has opened up a transition office, but that ground-floor corner office in Washington’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood is quiet for now as diplomats await news of their new boss. Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state could tell a lot about the direction […]

GENEVA —  United Nations agencies have warned that food shortages across Syria are growing as production hit a record low. A joint study by the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Program found that five years of civil war was severely limiting the ability […]