by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 6, 2014 | Middle East
Beirut, Reuters—At least 16 insurgents from Al-Qaeda’s Syrian wing, the Al-Nusra Front, were killed in clashes with Shi’ite group Hezbollah in eastern Lebanon on Sunday after launching a major offensive, a source close to Hezbollah said. Hundreds of the...
by Sawsan Al-Abtah | Aug 6, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—It appears that the Baalbeck International Festival will once again have to move out of its impressive setting among the Roman temple ruins in the Beqaa Valley, to which it returned on July 30 this year. As the security situation in Lebanon...
by Paula Astih | Apr 13, 2014 | Middle East
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Lebanese army and internal security forces continued efforts to implement the government’s new security plan for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday, as the Lebanese government continued its efforts to contain the spillover from the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 4, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Nine displaced Syrian nationals were killed Saturday in a airstrike near the Arsal border region in the Beka’a valley, according to reports. A further nine were injured during the attacks and are being treated at the General Hospital and...
by Fahd Al-Zayabi | Jun 15, 2013 | Middle East
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Hezbollah movement and its controversial intervention in the conflict in neighboring Syria are not unanimously supported by Lebanon’s Shi’ite community, affirmed the head of Lebanon’s Free Shi’a Movement, Sheikh...