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As economy collapses, some young Lebanese turn to militancy

Two weeks before he was supposed to get married, Bakr Seif told his mother he was going out to see his fiancee and would be back for lunch. When he did not show up by nighttime, his mother called the fiancee, who said he had not been to visit her. That day, Dec. 8, was the last time Seif’s...

Two babies freeze to death in IDP camps in Idlib

Two children died overnight, including a seven-day-old baby, in tented displacement camps in Syria’s Idlib province due to severe cold weather, drawing attention to the dire humanitarian condition in the region. “When I touched her, she felt like ice,” Mohamad Al-Hassan told Al...

Envoy on pope's 'concern, closeness' with Lebanon

The Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States said Tuesday that Pope Francis would like to visit Lebanon "soon" amid the country's crippling economic crisis. Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher spoke after a meeting with President Michel Aoun who thanked the Vatican for supporting Lebanon....