Lebanon News

Cyprus on Friday got rid of limits on money transfers and withdrawals for international clients of another eight foreign banks doing business in the debt-laden country.

In this picture taken on Friday May 10, 2013, Syrian economist Abdullah al-Dardari, a chief economist at the Beirut-based U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia and a former deputy prime minister in President Bashar Assad's government, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, In Beirut, Lebanon.

The conflict in Syria is taking a steep toll on its neighbors. Videos from Syria being posted to the Internet show a now-familiar theme - a country ripping itself apart - neither side willing to give in.

This Tuesday, May 14, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows the mother of a Syrian rebel cleaning a rifle, in Aleppo, Syria.

An exciting business year for Burger King Lebanon marked with an upbeat expansion plan in 2013; saw the prominent brand getting bigger everywhere in the country despite the volatile economic situation.

The Haifa District Attorney's Office on Thursday filed an indictment against Simon Sa'dati in the Acre Magistrate's Court for leaving the country illegally, following his recent dramatic incursion into Lebanon which temporarily both confused and transfixed the country.

Alfa unrolled the country's first commercial 4G data service in certain areas of Beirut Wednesday and Lebanon's second mobile operator, touch, is set to follow suit next week.

Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank today during demonstrations to mark 65 years since the Nakba, or catastrophe, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced from their villages.

Why would Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah organization, need more missiles to menace Israeli cities if, as Israel claims, he had already amassed more than 50,000 rockets and missiles capable of reaching its population centers? The answer is that he does not.

The legend of the late, great Algerian singer Warda Al-Jazayria lives on with the recent release of a music video for her song "Eyyam" from the album "Eli Da'a Min Omri" , which she put out before her passing.

May 15--BEIRUT -- "Better the shadow of a man," an Egyptian proverb suggests, "than the shadow of a wall." A few years back, fledgling 20-something filmmaker Hanan Abdalla got a commission from U.N. Women to make a documentary about "women's needs" in Egypt.

Ran Shirdan never got to meet his grandfather, Leon. He was robbed of the occasion 45 years ago by two Palestinian terrorists who sprayed gunfire at El Al Flight 253 as it taxied for takeoff at Athens airport.

BEIRUT: Human Rights Watch and the Syrian opposition National Coalition have condemned a gruesome video apparently showing a Syrian rebel fighter cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it.

Isaac Hasbani is a Chicago based Engineer. He was born in November 1947 to a Syrian Jewish family in Beirut.

In this Tuesday, April. 30, 2013 photo, a Lebanese man passes in front of a large poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, and two Alawite fighters killed in Syria with Arabic writing that reads, "at your service, oh Assad," and, "bullets will not terrify us and we are not scared of traitors," in the predominantly Alawite neighborhood of ... (more)

A Free Syrian Army fighter aims his AK-47 rifle through a window in Aleppo's Salaheddine neighbourhood .

Russian ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin speaks during an interview with The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 2, 2012.

President Michel Sleiman meets with the White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and Persian Gulf Philip Gordon at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

Relatives of the kidnapped protest in front of the Turkish airlines offices in Beirut, Thursday, May 9, 2013.

Actress Angelina Jolie announced in a New York Times op-ed article on Tuesday that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carries the BRCA1 gene, which sharply increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.