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Across the board, Lebanon’s Islamists did not view the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) declaration of an Islamic caliphate and their proclamation of the group’s leader, Ibrahim al-Badri (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), a caliph positively. There was a near consensus among them to reject the announcement, even though in ...

A suicide bomber blew himself up as security forces raided his hotel room in Beirut’s Raouche district Wednesday evening, injuring at least 11 people, in the third such blast to strike Lebanon in less than one week. Firefighters rushed to extinguish flames on the third floor of the Duroy Hotel ...

‪Hezbollah‬ Secretary General Sayyid Hassan ‪‎Nasrallah‬ said that his party was willing to defend Shiite shrines in Iraq, after the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham overrun large areas of the country. “We will do whatever we are asked to do, and will go wherever we have to be…” a source close to ...

Al-Akhbar editor-in-chief Ibrahim al-Amin appeared briefly before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) by video-link Thursday where he told the court he does not recognize its legitimacy and excused himself. “I reiterate today that I do not acknowledge the legitimacy of this tribunal. It was created by the United Nations Security ...

How did these lunatics do it? How did they let us get so close to their homes? How could they have spared us the trouble of getting to the point nearest to their positions? They would not have done so had they not been defeated. Truly defeated. And here we ...

Thousands gathered today in South Lebanon to listen to Hezbollah leader, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, deliver his speech on Liberation Day 2014. Liberation Day marks the day Israeli occupation forces were forced to end their illegal occupation of Lebanon in 2000 after facing resistance by Hezbollah. The following points were made ...

Israel might battle Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said yesterday. Gantz visited training camps in the north of the occupied West Bank. He said the deadline for peace talks came to an end on April 29 and the Israeli ...

There are only two things the Saudis know: spreading sectarianism and using the oil wealth to buy loyalty of people, especially politicians in different Muslim countries. Emile Lahoud, the former Lebanese President made a candid revelation in an interview with Iran’s Press TV on May 3 saying that he was ...

Today my four years at the Lebanese American University were summed up with a one-hour event hosting the American ambassador in Lebanon, David Hale. As I was sitting in the event questions were going backward and forward about how the US will carry out the tasks on its agenda in ...

Al-Manar television crew came under gunfire Monday during its coverage of the Syrian army’s recapture of the Christian town of Maalula from the terrorist hands, which resulted in the martyrdom of the reporter Hamza al-Hajj Hassan along with a cameraman and a technician. Al-Manar said 27-year-old Hajj Hassan and his ...