When the plastic bucket is filled with roses, Nahla al-Zarda takes it into the kitchen, where she separates the petals from the buds. She soaks them in boiling water, which blushes pink. “I love this colour. It will be even stronger when the drink is ready,” she says. Her...

Last summer Rida, a 29-year-old father of three from Syria, decided it was time to cross the border from Lebanon and head back home. His native city of Homs had been devastated during Syria’s civil war, but seven years after he fled it was back under the control of forces loyal to President...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Lebanese lawyer has uncovered a judicial scandal that took place in the palace of justice in Zahle town. The disappearance of the judicial file of the case of his client, the Syrian army defector Mohamed Nassif, in order to conceal the case in which five members of Hezbollah...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday warned the head of Hezbollah that "crushing" retaliation would follow any attack, after its leader said the group's rockets could reach Tel Aviv. "Over the weekend we heard [Hasan] Nasrallah's boasting about his attack plans," he said at the...