Day: 25 August 2023
Lebanon: Palestinian camp Ain al-Hilweh killers fingered
The killers responsible for murder and mayhem in a Palestinian refugee camp in the south of Lebanon have been identified following an investigation, reports reveal. [more…]
BRICS signs off new members in bid to counter US sanctions
Leaders of the BRICS bloc of leading developing nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – have agreed mechanisms for considering new members, [more…]
Faisal Al Yafai: Assad’s wait-and-see tactics will haunt him
Given the warm welcome Bashar Al Assad received at the Arab League just three months ago, one might have expected rather warmer words from Syria’s [more…]
Kerry Boyd Anderson: Two years on after Afghanistan
Two years after the US and its allies withdrew from Afghanistan, partisan political views in Washington have hardened, while foreign policy experts are starting more [more…]
Hazem Saghieh: the culture war in Lebanon
A cultural war, the likes of which the country has not seen since the mid-1970s, is raging in Lebanon. Youths influenced by freedom movements across [more…]
What a drag. Gay bar stormed by fanatics in Beirut
A drag show in the Lebanese capital Beirut was cut short late on Wednesday by an angry crowd of conservative Christians screaming homophobic chants. The [more…]
