by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 5, 2017 | Middle East
Baghdad- Iraqi journalist Afrah Shawqi was released on Tuesday night, ten days after gunmen abducted her from her house in Baghdad. Shawqi said during a press conference she held on Wednesday that she was put in a cell for nine days, blindfolded, and underwent...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 8, 2016 | Middle East
Beirut- A family dispute was transformed into an international problem as Australians, who participated in abducting two Lebanese-Australian children to return them to their mother, were detained in Lebanon. Hours after abducting the two Al-Amin children from Beirut’s...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 2, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
A security source told Reuters on Monday that the five Czech citizens who went missing in eastern Lebanon in July are now with the Lebanese security services. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that the five, who went missing in Lebanon last year, were...
by Nazeer Rida | Mar 26, 2013 | Middle East
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The retaliatory kidnappings that have taken place in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley this week are tribal, not sectarian, Asharq Al-Awsat can reveal. This newest round of escalatory abductions began with the kidnapping of a member of the prominent...
