Mohammad Al Arabi's borrowed ute arrives before dawn at Beirut's Burg Hammoud sports stadium. His wife and three boys sit in the low-slung tray of the white Toyota, wedged between a tall load of suitcases, plastic bags stuffed full with clothes, a microwave, a rug and even a giant pink...

Israel’s Jerusalem municipality has announced plans to remove the UN’s relief agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from occupied East Jerusalem, the Israeli press has reported.  According to Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has accused the agency of...

Military personnel have demanded an urgent investigation into the circumstances which have created a two-week delay in the return home of 119 Irish peacekeeping troops from Syria. The peacekeepers are attached to the 57th infantry group serving with the Undof United Nations mission in...

Lebanon's foreign minister gathered ambassadors Monday near Beirut international airport in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah movement had secret missile facilities there. "Today Lebanon is raising (its) voice by addressing all countries of the world... to...