Tag: Beirut

A weekend seminar in Beirut to promote LGBT rights has been cancelled after "threats" from religious figures, its organisers said ...

"Three, two, one, action!" shouts Syrian refugee Mostafa Abdallah, 11, energetically directing his fellow child actors in a musical being ...

Renowned architect David Adjaye has been awarded with a Knighthood for his service to architecture. The investiture ceremony was performed ...

Negotiations were under way on Sunday on evacuating insurgents and their families from two districts in Damascus, a Syrian military ...

More than 30 civilians and Kurdish-led fighters have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants near Syria's north-eastern ...

Lebanon launched a bike-sharing programme in its capital Beirut on Sunday, hoping to cut down on the congested city's notorious ...

A law which protected rapists from punishment if they married their victims has been scrapped in Jordan. The Jordanian cabinet ...

Lebanese activists ramped up their campaign to scrap a controversial law allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free, ...

Their voices narrate the unofficial soundtrack of life as an Arab today. But for the artists leading the Arab world's ...

Lebanon's prime minister warned Friday that his country has reached "breaking point" by hosting more than one million Syrian refugees ...

Earlier this month, the new Lebanese government, led by President Michel Aoun, published a tender to explore untapped gas and ...

Demolition of one of the Middle East's oldest breweries began this week in the Lebanese capital to make way for ...

Every week, young divorcee Rita Choukeir looks forward to the three precious hours she gets with her young son in ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres travels to Jordan next week to attend an Arab summit following a row over the ...

Israel's military chief said on Tuesday that Hezbollah's military commander in Syria, reported dead last year, was killed by members ...

Several thousand people descended on the Lebanese capital Sunday to protest a proposed tax hikes to cover a salary increase ...

Just before midnight in a sleepy district of Beirut, dozens of Syrian refugees huddle in small groups around bulging suitcases, ...

The head of the United Nations' West Asia commission, Rima Khalaf, has resigned over what she described as the pressure ...

Jordanian UN official Rima Khalaf announced her resignation Friday, saying the secretary general had asked her to withdraw a report ...

The United States on Wednesday demanded that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres withdraw a report by a UN body accusing Israel ...