Following a personal dispute between van owners for public transportation, security forces successfully reopened Aley international highway to both sides of traffic.
(update) Security forces reopen Aley international highway
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Successive Suicide Bombings in al-Qaa Kill 5 and Wound 15
At least nine people were killed, including four suicide bombers, and fifteen others were wounded in multiple suicide bombings in eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria, the National News Agency reported on Monday. A series of four suicide explosions struck at 10 minute intervals […]
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Tal Afar, West of Mosul, Becomes Center of Battle for Influence in Iraq
ERBIL, Iraq — The city of Tal Afar, a former Ottoman outpost not far from Mosul that has a mostly ethnic Turkmen population and has been home to a corps of Islamic State leaders, on Saturday became the focus of a growing struggle between Turkey […]
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Macron calls Trump, other leaders after meeting Lebanon’s Hariri
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to his US counterpart Donald Trump and other world leaders about the situation in the Middle East after meeting Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the Elysée palace on Saturday. After Iran reacted angrily to Macron dubbing its policy in […]