by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 2, 2017 | Middle East
Three people were reportedly killed on Sunday in a fire that blazed at a Syrian refugee encampment in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, local media said. The identities of the alleged victims have not been revealed. Flames and thick clouds of black smoke rose from the...
by Youssef Diab | May 31, 2016 | Middle East
Beirut-Lebanon’s security situation went back to the forefront after Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq revealed on Monday that security forces had thwarted three bombing plots by ISIS. Al-Mashnouq’s announcement came after security agencies issued reports on the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 2, 2014 | Middle East
Beirut, Reuters—A suicide car bomber killed three people at a petrol station in a stronghold of the Shi’ite militant Hezbollah movement on Lebanon’s northern border on Saturday, the latest sign that Syria’s civil war is spilling over into its small...
by Alex Edwards | Apr 4, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The civil war in Syria spilled over into neighboring Lebanon once again this week, with reports that a Syrian military aircraft attacked a Lebanese town on Wednesday. A Syrian helicopter is reported to have fired two rockets into the outskirts...
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...