Ahmad Alkhalaf has had a busy year. He attended Democratic President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address as a special guest of a congressman. He learned to bike and rollerblade, took martial arts and gymnastics classes and spent his summer playing soccer and swimming...

(Zaman al-Wasl) “What did Smurf tell you… Didn’t Smurf bring you… He ‘smurfed’ him…. On the ‘smurfing’,” are repeated as a reference to the deceased artist Philemon Wehbe a Lebanese artist who played the role of the oblivious person whose life remains untouched by any issue...

The Lebanese Army arrested Sunday seven suspects in north Lebanon on terror links, state media reported. An army intelligence patrol detained seven Syrian nationals in Zgharta north of Beirut on charges “of communicating with terrorist groups,” the National News Agency said. No...

(The Huffington Post)- The first airstrike hit at 9:02 on the morning of Feb. 15. As rescue teams dashed to the scene, warplanes circled back for a “double tap,” pummeling the isolated hospital in northwestern Syria a second time, minutes later. And a third. And a fourth. Twenty-five...