Articles tagged with: Lebanon
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Tuesday, 11 Jun, 2013
RIYADH, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia condemned Hezbollah’s “blatant interference” in the Syrian crisis on Monday.
During a cabinet session chaired by Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah on Monday, the Saudi cabinet was briefed on the latest developments in the international arena, including the Syrian crisis.
Following the meeting, Saudi Minister of Culture and Information, Dr. Abdulaziz Khoja, informed the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) that the ca...
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Wednesday, 5 Jun, 2013
LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Syrian government announced on Wednesday that it has recaptured the town of Qusayr on the Syrian-Lebanese border after three weeks of fighting.
The Syrian army, with the assistance of Lebanese fighters from Hezbollah, launched an offensive to re-take the town from rebels on May 19, surrounding it and pummeling it with air strikes and artillery fire.
The town occupies a strategic position, linking Damascus with the heartland of Syria’s Alawite population ...
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Tuesday, 4 Jun, 2013
Of all the members of the EU, it is Britain and France that have been by far the most active in getting involved in finding a solution in the crisis in Syria. This has gone even fu...
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BEIRUT/LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat—The fighting between Syrian government forces and the rebels in and around the town of Al-Qusayr, near the border with Lebanon, has intensified...
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Thursday, 30 May, 2013
LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s Shi'ite Houthi rebels are participating in the fighting in Syria, officials in Yemen have told Asharq Al-Awsat.
An official source, speak...
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Tuesday, 14 May, 2013
The contending Lebanese factions have taken their fight from the streets of Beirut and Tripoli to those of Damascus and Homs. Yet, battling it out elsewhere does not mean that Leba...
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Friday, 19 Apr, 2013
BEIRUT, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanese Shi’ites are increasingly split on the issue of support for the government of Bashar Al-Assad in Syria, according to sources in southern Be...
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Monday, 15 Apr, 2013
Lebanese artist Walid Raad rose to international acclaim in the early 2000s with The Atlas Group, established in Lebanon in 1999 with Raad as its only known member. The Atlas Group...
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Saturday, 6 Apr, 2013
Elias Khoury’s latest novel to be published in English, White Masks, is actually a work from 1981, written in the heat of the Lebanese Civil War on the eve of the Israeli off...
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Saturday, 6 Apr, 2013
Last year’s Doha Tribeca film festival marked a tipping point for female Arab directors. From Rafea: Solar Mama, a sparky documentary about a Jordanian woman who trains to be a s...
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