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THE DAY I ARRIVED in Beirut I was collected at my hotel by Huda Baroudi, a cheerful woman who had offered to show me around. It was a lazy Sunday, grim and gray, and I was jet-lagged. But her eyes were shining and she was […]

More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration’s policy in Syria, urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government of President Bashar al-Assad to stop its persistent violations of a cease-fire in […]

The State Security agency arrested Thursday a Syrian man in Beirut on charges of “entering Lebanon illegally” and “having ties and contacts with al-Nusra Front,” al-Qaida’s Syria branch, media reports said. Later on Thursday, the General Security agency announced that another Syrian has been arrested […]

Saudi Arabia has taken new measures concerning bank transfers conducted by Lebanese citizens from Saudi Arabia to their home country, according to the chairman of the Lebanese Chamber of Commerce. Mohammed Shuqair told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that currently each bank transfer “takes around three to […]

Iraqi forces raised the national flag over the main government compound in Fallujah on Friday, top commanders said, a breakthrough in the nearly four-week-old offensive against the Islamic State group’s bastion. They met limited resistance from IS fighters, who were fleeing the city, the commanders […]

El Tribunal Supremo (TS) de Alemania deberá estudiar si es posible reconocer en el país los matrimonios con menores contraídos en el extranjero, en respuesta a un recurso presentado contra el reconocimiento del enlace de un refugiado sirio con una prima cuando ésta tenía 14 […]

Varias decenas de diplomáticos de EEUU protestaron esta semana contra la política del Gobierno de Barack Obama en Siria, y firmaron un documento interno que pide ataques militares contra el régimen de Bashar el Asad, según publicaron hoy los diarios “The Wall Street Journal” y […]

Iran hat nach Abgaben des Leiters für internationale Angelegenheiten bei der iranischen Zentralbank ein Team aus Juristen und Wirtschaftsprüfern in die USA geschickt, um mit den US-Verantwortlichen über die Entschädigungszahlungen an die Familienangehörigen der Opfer eines Terroranschlags im Libanon im Jahre 1983 zu sprechen. Dieser […]

Seitdem die Flüchtlingskrise im letzten Jahr akut wurde, hat Andreas Backhaus eine seltsame Veränderung in sich bemerkt: Seine Motivation, bei der Versorgung und Integration der ungezählten Einwanderer zu helfen, ist stetig gesunken und hat sich mittlerweile bei null eingependelt: er erklärt warum. Jetzt sind sie […]