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An Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite is seen in an undated handout artist’s rendering. REUTERS

Sapped by Arab World, Al-Manar Resorts to Russian Satellite

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 7, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- Arab satellite operator “Nilesat” staged a decisive walkout against the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah. The operator administration cut the transmission of “Al-Manar”-Hezbollah official media outlet- for reasons it considered private. The broadcasting...

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An image grab taken from Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen TV, a private broadcaster sympathetic to Syria’s government, on March 20, 2014, shows the famed Crusader fort of Krak des Chevaliers. (AFP Photo/Al-Mayadeen TV)

Al-Mayadeen channel withdraws Damascus correspondent

by Nazeer Rida | Apr 14, 2014 | Media

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Al-Mayadeen, a Lebanese pro-Syrian government satellite news channel, has withdrawn its correspondent in Damascus and reduced its coverage of the Syrian conflict in the wake of new restrictions on foreign media by the Syrian government. The...

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A Lebanese army soldier stands guard at the scene where a car bomb went off near a Hezbollah base near the Baalbek region, eastern Lebanon, early Tuesday, December 17, 2013. The Lebanese army and officials said, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks that have targeted the Shiite militant group’s interests in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon: Car bomb explodes at Hezbollah checkpoint

by Layal Abu Rahal | Dec 18, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—A Hezbollah checkpoint in east Lebanon was the target of a car bombing on Tuesday, the first incident of its kind in the Beqaa region, scene of a number of other recent attacks on targets associated with the organization. The bombing was also...

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Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks on Al-Manar, Hezbollah’s official television channel, as a barber shaves a customer at a men’s hairdresser shop in Beirut, April 30, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Divisions in Lebanon’s media on show

by Nadine Makarem | Jun 5, 2013 | Media

Beirut/London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Since the outbreak of the uprising against Bashar Al-Assad in Syria in 2011, the divisions between different factions in Lebanon over the crisis in neighboring Syria have been played out through the country’s media outlets. But...

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No Optimism over Peace Talks, Head of Syrian Opposition Team Says

Geneva II doubts grow as both sides dig in

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 30, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Speculation is growing that the convening of the international peace conference on the Syrian crisis proposed by the US and Russia, known as “Geneva II,” is increasingly endangered after the latest declarations by both sides in the conflict....