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Former Lebanese Information Minister Released on Bail

Former Lebanese Information Minister Released on Bail

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 15, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

The ruling issued by Beirut Military Court to release Michel Samaha, who was the Information Minister from 1992 to 1995, in exchange for a bail payment of 150 million Lebanese pounds ($99,463), appaled politicians and civilians in Lebanon. Prominent officials from...

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A member loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) waves an ISIS flag in the Syrian city of Raqqa, on June 29, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)

Lebanese minister calls for ISIS flag burners to face trial

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 31, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanon’s justice minister has called for the “sternest punishments” to be applied to individuals who burned the flags of the militant groups the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS) and the Al-Nusra Front in Beirut on Saturday, leading to widespread...

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A Hezbollah civil defense worker extinguishes a burned car at the site of an explosion, near the Kuwaiti Embassy and Iran’s cultural center, in the suburb of Beir Hassan, Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. A blast in a Shiite district in southern Beirut killed at least two people on Wednesday, security officials said — the latest apparent attack linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Bomb hits southern Beirut as Hezbollah and Future Movement begin meetings

by Nazeer Rida | Feb 19, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Fresh bombings rocked Beirut’s southern suburbs on Wednesday, only a day after signs of improving relations between Hezbollah and the Future Movement appeared. Security sources told reporters that at least 19 people were killed on...