Iraq police officer jailed for life over protest killings
An Iraqi criminal court on Sunday sentenced a police officer to life in prison over the 2019 murder of anti-government protesters in the southern city of Nasiriyah....
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Bukhari, Bassil congratulate Teymour Joumblatt on election as PSP head
BEIRUT — Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil and Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid al-Bukhari congratulated Teymour Joumblatt on his election as the new head of the Progressive...
25 June 2023
Exclusive: Walid Joumblatt 'ready to help' Teymour, if needed
BEIRUT — Walid Joumblatt said Sunday that he is "ready to help" his son, just moments before Teymour Joumblatt officially assumed the reins of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) following a...
Lyana ALAMEDDINE with Layal DAGHER, 25 June 2023
Teymour Joumblatt elected as new PSP head
BEIRUT — Yet another patrilineal transfer of power in Lebanon. Chouf MP Teymour Joumblatt officially assumed the reins of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) on Sunday, succeeding his father,...
25 June 2023
New series looks at life, hunt for Hezbollah’s ‘ghost’ military leader
On Feb. 12, 2008, an explosion ripped through the Syrian capital Damascus. It came as a shock. At the time, Damascus was widely viewed as being stable and not prone to such bombings. The...
Nicholas Frakes, 25 June 2023
Fire extinguishing operations continue in Akkar as wildfire spreads
BEIRUT — The wildfire that broke out Saturday morning in a wooded area near Sinn, Akkar, in northern Lebanon continued to spread across neighboring areas on Sunday. The military helicopter used...
Ghadir Hamadi, 25 June 2023
Russian strikes kill seven in rebel-held Syria
Russian air strikes Sunday on Syria's northwest killed at least seven people, including four civilians, in retaliation for deadly drone attacks blamed on rebel forces, a war monitor said....
25 June 2023
Israel's Ben-Gvir rebukes police over 'collective punishment' of settlers
JERUSALEM — Israel's far-right police minister rebuked the force on Sunday for what he called "collective punishment" of Jewish settlers, as cracks widened between the security services and the...
