A crowd of what appeared to be several hundred protesters in the southern Druze city of Suwaida, Syria, chanted slogans targeting the Syrian government Saturday on the seventh day of a growing movement calling for economic and political reform.An econo…

Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has lamented that ‘no one today wants a settlement’ in the country. ‘But it is the thing we need the most. A settlement for the sake of the country and not for the sake of any party in this or th…

Air traffic controllers at the Rafik Hariri International Airport announced on Thursday they would go on strike next month over severe staffing shortages, partially closing the Beirut hub. The announcement by the team of 13 air traffic controllers fol…

After former minister Wael Bou Faour brought up the issue of carcinogenic agricultural pesticides being used in Lebanon and the smuggling mafia behind it, Bou Faour announced that he had filed a report and received a promise from the prosecutor of the…

Caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayyad on Thursday announced that a reconnaissance permit has been granted to a consortium of international companies to conduct a 3D seismic survey of Lebanon’s offshore Block 8. ‘Today is a historic day in a journey t…

Caretaker Minister of Agriculture, Abbas Haj Hassan, indicated in an interview with Al-Hurra Channel that ‘the Ministry of Agriculture has been working for four years on a project with the FAO organization to keep pace with combating illegal medicines…

Minister of High Education and Scientific Research Ayman Ashour asserted a quantum leap has been achieved in the high education sector since 2014, given the total number of students in higher education was estimated at one million in nine years.That ca…