The head of the Internal Security Force’s Information Branch vowed to block attempts to usher Lebanon’s largest prison back to an era of impunity, five months after security forces first stormed the notorious facility. “We will not allow a return to the emirate that is Roumieh [prison]...

There are more than just two security officers accused of torturing inmates in Roumieh Prison, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said Sunday, after online footage showed two ISF officers beating prisoners with a plastic rod. “These two officers are not alone,” Machnouk said in a news...

A Palestinian from Syria was killed and another man wounded in an armed clash in the Beddawi refugee camp in the north Lebanon city of Tripoli overnight, the state-run National News Agency reported Friday. The man was identified as Abu Yasser, a refugee who came to Lebanon after fleeing the...

Syrian insurgents say they have begun a campaign to capture full control of the divided city of Aleppo, Syria's most populous city before it become a main battleground in its four-year-old civil war. Neither side has been able to control Syria's main commercial hub, 50 km from Turkey, since...