BEIRUT (The Daily Star)-  Lebanon’s cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Tammam Salam got underway Thursday with a regular agenda, but Hezbollah's ministers were expected to raise the issue of entry permits for Syrians from outside the schedule, ministerial sources told...

BEIRUT (The Daily Star)- Attorney General Charbel Abu Samra Wednesday issued a bench warrant against Al-Jazeera journalist Faisal Qassem after he failed to show up to two hearings in the lawsuit filed against him for criticizing the Lebanese Army, judicial sources told The Daily...

BEIRUT (The Daily Star)- The Nusra Front Monday issued a new threat against the captive soldiers and policemen being held on Lebanon’s northeastern border after police raided a notorious prison packed with Islamists earlier in the day. In response, the families of the captives...

More than 27 Syrian people have frozen to death since 2011 March during Syria’s ongoing civil war, a Syrian human rights group said Sunday. According to pro-opposition Syrian Network for Human Rights, at least 27 people, including 16 children and three women have lost...