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Former President Jimmy Carter, seated at desk in Oval Office of White House tells of the aborted rescue effort intended to get the 53 American hostages out of Iran. Bettmann Archive
Barbara Walters, the trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News anchor and correspondent, has died at the age of 93.
United States President Joe Biden will start an official visit to Saudi Arabia on Friday for the first time since taking office in early 2021. The two-day visit comes at the invitation of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman.
The BBC say that Arabs are losing faith in democracy to deliver economic stability across Middle East and North Africa, according to a major new survey. But in fact also western people in USA and UK lost their trust in democracy, as they...
Lebanon's Deputy Prime Minister Saadeh al-Shami said in a televised interview that "the state and the Banque du Liban are bankrupt."
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan — when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk — began at sunrise Saturday in much of the Middle East, where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent energy and food prices soaring.
Powerful associates of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, are making and selling captagon, an illegal amphetamine, creating a new narcostate on the Mediterranean.
France’s president and Saudi Arabia’s crown prince held a joint phone call with Lebanon’s prime minister during Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the kingdom
The International Monetary Fund says the persistence of the coronavirus and global supply chain crisis weighs on economies.
Hezbollah Says Block on Iranian, Lebanese, Yemeni Sites ‘Exposes Falsehood’ of US Free Speech Claims
The Justice Department seized dozens of Middle Eastern domains this week, chief among them the .com domain of Press TV, a foreign language news service owned by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. Iran slammed the decision and warned ...
The European Union’s foreign policy chief told Lebanon’s leaders on Saturday they were to blame for the country’s political and economic crisis and some could face sanctions if they continue to obstruct steps to form a new government and...
Lebanon is on the edge of falling into an uncertain and terrifying freefall.
Leaders fear Donald Trump and Israel will act against Iran and Hezbollah before Joe Biden’s arrival
A largescale manhunt is underway in Lebanon as dozens of inmates managed to escape from a prison facility. Some of the fugitives have already been captured or surrendered, while five died after crashing a stolen car into a tree.
Shortly after 6:00pm on 4 August 2020, an explosion ripped through the port of Beirut. It killed more than two hundred people, wounded over 6,500, and destroyed large parts of the city. Forensic Architecture was invited by Mada Masr to e...
The political and economic crisis in Lebanon started long before the devastating explosion on August 4, 2020. But since then, the country has been in freefall. Young people in particular are asking whether they have a future there at all.
The Lebanese Central Bank Banque Du Liban (BDL) plans to introduce a digital currency to replace its Lira next year in an effort to restore confidence in the banking sector and transition into a cashless system amid economic and financia...
A month on from the deadly blast that killed over 200 and destroyed tens of thousands of homes, graffiti artists are attempting to restore hope in the city.
Former adult actress Mia Khalifa has escalated her attacks on Shakira, claiming that the singer has done the “bare minimum” to help Beirut blast victims, despite her Lebanese heritage.