Hezbollah fieldcommanderwas killed in clashes in  thenorthern Syrianprovince of Aleppo, media reports said on Friday. “The commander Haidar Fareez Merhi and the fighter Hussein Hassan Jawad, who both hail from the western Bekaa town of Mashghara, were killed fighting in the Nubol and Zahraa area north of Aleppo,” Al-Arabiya television reported.   The pro-Hezbollah South Lebanon news portal confirmed Merhi’s death, also ...

The Czech defense minister says a military spy who was among five Czechs returned Thursday from Lebanon was seeking information about a fellow countryman kidnapped in Libya last year. The minister, Martin Stropnicky, was quoted in the Hospodarske Noviny daily Friday as saying the military agent, Martin Psik, went to Lebanon in an effort “to help our cook in Libya.” ...

Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi Friday tasked the general prosecution with inspecting a media report saying that two members of the Military Tribunal’s panel which decided on ex-Information Minister Michel Samaha’s release are relatives.  

Police Friday freed a Kuwaiti man who was kidnapped in east Lebanon last month, a security source said. The source said the Internal Security Forces’ Information Branch freed Mohsen Barak al-Majed in the east Lebanon town of Taanayel. Kuwait’s Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Khaled al-Sabah later in the day expressed his gratitude over what he said was the ISF’s coordination with ...

Egypt’s worsening human rights abuses are not going unnoticed. People are being assaulted on many fronts, from travel restrictions and false imprisonment to limits on freedom of expression, torture and killings. In an example of this trend, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a presidential decree Jan. 13 designating 100 acres of land for construction of the new Giza Central Prison, a huge ...

A suspicious package in Wilson County led to the discovery of a meth lab Wednesday morning. Lebanon police were called to the 1000 block of Amelia Place around 8 a.m. to investigate the package when they reportedly found items associated with a meth lab. City of Lebanon Emergency Services Unit, the Lebanon Fire Department and members of the Lebanon Police ...

Hezbollah fighters killed at least four members of the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in a rocket attack on their car in northeastern Lebanon on Tuesday, a security source said. The incident took place in a restive area near the Syrian border, just outside the Lebanese town of Arsal, which Nusra Front and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters overran ...

From matchstick men to movie quality graphics, the football video game has come a long way in 37 years. BBC Radio 5 live has taken an in-depth look at the history of the genre in a special programme called the Beautiful Gamers, which you can watch on the BBC Sport website at 19:30 GMT on Thursday. And to mark the ...

AC MILAN, Napoli and Lazio have dismissed their respective roles in the latest scandal to hit Italian football after dozens of players and officials were put under investigation on Tuesday. A total of 64 people, including Milan CEO Adriano Galliani, Modena coach Hernan Crespo and Paris Saint Germain striker Ezequiel Lavezzi have been targeted by an Italian police investigation into ...

WRITTEN BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG If you live in Liberia,South Sudan or any other African nation, arranging to see a doctor might unfortunately not be as simple as booking an appointment. Seven out of 10 people in these countries say they have had to pay bribes to access basic services like healthcare and schooling, according to Transparency International, a global ...