Lebanon has charged a dozen people including a prominent Alawite leader with belonging to an "armed terrorist organization", judicial sources said on Saturday, part of a drive to control sectarian violence fuelled by the war in Syria . Around 30 people have been killed in...
Former Lebanon warlord Samir Geagea, a staunch opponent of Syria and the Shiite movement Hezbollah, will stand for the presidency in May, his Christian Lebanese Forces party said on Friday. Geagea, 61, was the only leader from the 1975-1990 civil war ever jailed, but was...
An angry Lebanese teenager, who reportedly did not seen his mother for the past seven years, kicked her on live television this week while participating in an Arab talk show that seeks to resolve family problems. The mother sought to appear on, “Bil Akeed,” or “For...
Within the small community of minority Arabs where he lived in southwest Iran , Hashem Shaabani was known as a teacher, an advocate for civil rights and a poet. But to the Islamic Republic he was seen as a threat. Shaabani, 32, was arrested in February 2011 and accused of...
