Glass is everywhere in Beirut, except where it’s supposed to be
BEIRUT — Broken glass seems everywhere in this city. It’s there in shiny, debris-filled mounds at the entrances to buildings. In single slivers lurking like...
Behind the grim jokes is the very serious fear of an all-out war breaking out between Washington and Tehran, with Iraq as its chessboard, and...
The animal feed wholesaler was friendly enough, Syrian neighbors said, but mostly kept to himself. So they were surprised to learn he commanded an extremist...
The removal of concrete barriers lining major roads and buildings is another sign of a city shedding the vestiges of 15 blood-soaked years that made...
Far from vanquishing the extremist group and its associated “franchises,” critics say, U.S. policies in the Mideast appear to have encouraged its spread.
Despite months of an intensely orchestrated feel-good campaign by the Saudi government, the smoldering remains of one woman’s car illustrated that not all are on...