The Higher Islamic Council (HIC) held on Saturday a meeting under the chairmanship of its vice-president Omar Mesqawi, where discussions focused on the political and religious situations in the country. The conferees...
More than a dozen rockets and mortar rounds fired from Syria struck eastern Lebanon Saturday, security officials said, as tensions rise in the two countries' borderlands where Hezbollah militants are playing a bigger role in Syria 's civil war....
As fighting in Qusayr rages, Ban Ki-moon issues urgent appeal to Syria to protect civilians. New York, 1 June 2013 - Statement Attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on the situation in Qusayr, Syria The Secretary-General is...
Wednesday, 29 May 2013 Octavia Nasr When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, I was a teenager, growing up in a peaceful household that was neither political nor sectarian. Although Hezbollah was born then as a resistance movement to Israel’s presence in Lebanon,...
