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Beirut in December was once a shopping extravaganza, where day-long traffic jams clogged streets decked out with flashing Christmas lights and building-sized billboards advertising champagne and jewellery

Syria's national museum in Damascus has partially reopened to the public after it closed amid the civil war more than six years ago.

This week's violence highlights willingness by members of Lebanon's ruling class to fight for political survival at any cost

Hours-long exchange of fire involved snipers, pistols, Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades; 20 wounded; not clear who fired at whom, how clashes broke out and why

Relatives of Amer Fakhoury announced on Tuesday they are suing the government of Iran for his imprisonment and abuse by Hezbollah.

Relatives of Amer Fakhoury announced on Tuesday they are suing the government of Iran for his imprisonment and abuse by Hezbollah.

Lebanons economy is in freefall. The World Bank calls it one of the worst financial crises in a century. We look back at Lebanons optimistic years, zooming in on the one key decision that started this house of cards. And we ask what this can teach us about booms and busts in general.

Dr. Ausaf Ahmed Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital is pleased to announce that two physicians have recently joined its medical staff representing two separate service lines: Dr. Ausaf Ahmed, specializing in neurology and Dr. Stacy Bowlds, specializing in minimally invasive and robotic general surgery, are now welcoming new patients. "The addition of these two physicians not only represents the expansion of existing service lines, like general surgery, within Lake Cumberlands offerings, but also ...

Arab countries face high coronavirus vaccine hesitancy The rollout of coronavirus vaccines in the Middle East and North Africa is already taking place on a massive scale, with the United Arab Emirates leading the way. Nevertheless, many people are in no rush to get the COVID-19 jab. Cathrin Schaer poses the all-important question: why? Earlier this week Mahmoud, an Iraqi civil servant, had an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccination appointment in Baghdad. The 34-year-old had easily been able to ...

Search A woman, draped in a black-striped Lebanese flag, looks at the site of the massive explosion at Beiruts port area, during a demonstration to mark one month since the cataclysmic August 4 explosion that killed 191 people, in the Lebanese capital Beirut on September 4, 2020. - The explosion piled on new misery for Lebanese already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and the countrys worst economic crisis in decades. As well as killing more than 190 people, the explosion injured at lea...