BEIRUT: The Health Ministry launched the National Mental Health Program Thursday, kick-starting a multipronged, long-term strategy to integrate mental health...
BEIRUT: Three Palestinians who were deported last weekend from Lebanon back to Syria, where they had been living, are still waiting in a no-man’s land between...
BEIRUT: Tailor Nabil Qassem makes 35-40 shirts a week, each one costing $50. The need to find his monthly rent of $1,000 will bring him into work on Labor...
MGHEIRIEH, Lebanon: The elderly Elias Dagher points toward acres of olive groves overlooking the precipitous region of Iqlim al-Kharroub, identifying the...
BEIRUT: From grocers to dressmakers, Lebanese from Christian and Muslim neighborhoods alike were avidly following the televised parliamentary session to elect...
BEIRUT: Lebanon is in need of effective food safety measures in light of the series of food scandals that the country has witnessed, ministries and experts...
BEIRUT: The Education Ministry and partner organizations launched a series of initiatives Monday to better integrate children with special needs into the...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: In the main square of the mostly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in Tripoli, insignia symbolizing allegiance to Syrian President Bashar...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: The demographically diverse Mina, the harbor town just five kilometers from downtown Tripoli, is distinguished by its nautical charms,...
FNAYDEQ, Lebanon: A suspect who shot at an Army unit in the northern region of Qammoua this week committed suicide rather than face the shame brought by...
FNAYDEQ, Lebanon: The young men sit slumped casually on the side road, chatting idly and watching the cars pass the main thoroughfare in Fnaydeq, a populous...
SAADNAYEL, Lebanon: Shams Bader eyes the entrance of her tented settlement in the Bekaa Valley town of Kfoury with suspicion; a year in Lebanon with limited...
BEIRUT: A chemical attack, starvation tactics, a strategic military offensive and a siege. They all had different reasons for coming, but their reason for...
BEIRUT: Abeer Seikaly saw a tent and, invoking nomadic lifestyles of the past, re-envisioned its structure as a self-sustaining shelter, not only achieving...
BEIRUT: The Army dismantled an explosives-rigged vehicle on the outskirts of Arsal in east Lebanon Monday, as the military finalized preparations for a...
BEIRUT: Arab Democratic Party sources dismissed rumors Sunday that party leader Ali Eid and his son, politburo chief Rifaat Eid, had fled the country to avoid...
BEIRUT: The roots of last week’s debacle in Arsal, following the fall of Yabroud, were sown about a year before, said Tareq Shandab, a lawyer notorious...
BEIRUT: There is more to Bangladesh than its migrant worker community, its newly appointed Ambassador AFM Gousal Azam Sarker said. Altering that stereotype of...
BEIRUT: Public outrage over a Facebook page titled “Neo-Nazis against Syrian Refugees,” led dozens to call for its closure Thursday. The Arabic...
BEIRUT/ARSAL, Lebanon: A suicide bomber killed at least three people, including two Hezbollah members, and wounded 11 others in the east Lebanon village of...
BEIRUT: The often-overlooked Ministry for the Displaced could face the additional responsibility of taking on more Lebanese internal evacuees if the...
ARSAL, Lebanon: With an outdated 50-year-old map of his town framing the backdrop of his office, Arsal’s Deputy Mayor Ahmad Fliti talks on the phone...
BEIRUT: Human trafficking in Lebanon reached record levels last year, according to the head of the Internal Security Force’s Vice Squad, with the number...
BEIRUT: As a consultant for the National Commission for Lebanese Women, Rita Chemaly is expertly acquainted with the complexities inherent to the fight for...
BEIRUT: The National Commission for Lebanese Women Tuesday launched a campaign to fight underage marriage, an initiative that legal experts anticipate will...