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Why have clashes erupted at the Lebanon-Syria border?
Violence at the Lebanon-Syria border between Lebanese clans and Syrian security forces escalated last week as the government ...
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15 Mediterranean Street Foods To Try At Least Once
The Mediterranean basin is home to a food scene as varied and vibrant as the people who live there. Here are 15 street foods ...
Syria’s interim president visits Saudi Arabia on first trip abroad, likely a signal to Iran
Syria’s interim president made his first trip abroad Sunday, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal Damascus’ shift away from ...
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Lebanon: How Israel, Hezbollah, and Regional Powers Are Shaping Its Future
Lebanon, one of the most troubled countries in the Middle East, is once again at a critical crossroads. Several recent developments—a new leadership, a cessation of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict ...
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Assad’s fall opens window for Syrian refugees to head home − but for many, it won’t be an easy decision
Most ended up in neighboring countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, while a sizable minority wound up in Europe. But the overthrow of the Assad regime in late 2024 by ...
UN refugee chief calls for more help for Syria as refugees begin to return en masse
The United Nations refugee chief said Saturday that some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the government of Bashar Assad was ...
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Middle East updates: Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extended to Feb. 18
Israel, Lebanon and the U.S. are negotiating the release of Lebanese prisoners. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into effect a week ago. Hostages held in the strip and Palestinian ...
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Jenin and the West Bank: Israel's new battlefronts after Gaza, Lebanon ceasefires - analysis
This followed a clear decision to use the ceasefire and relative calm on the Gaza and Lebanon fronts, to begin a crackdown in the northern West Bank. The political leadership care a lot about this ...
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Egypt, UN back Lebanon’s new government amid hopes for stability
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and UN Secretary-General António Guterres have expressed support for Lebanon’s newly appointed Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, amid a wave of optimism for the ...
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What Lebanon's shifting political landscape means for Hezbollah
Lebanon elected General Joseph Aoun, the head of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), as president earlier this month, ending a more than two-year presidential vacuum. Just days later, Nawaf Salam ...
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Small carnivores may have constituted important part of hunter–gatherer nutrition in the Levant
Around this time, hunter–gatherer societies in the Levant were transitioning to a farmer lifestyle. This transition is called the Neolithic Revolution. Early signs of change had already been ...
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Abandoned and nowhere to go: A snapshot of migrant domestic workers stranded in Lebanon
They were some of the 176,000 migrant domestic workers in Lebanon — many of them separated from or abandoned by their employers who fled Israel’s aerial and ground assaults on the country. War is a ...