As world mourns Paris, many in Mideast see double-standard
Within hours of last week's Paris attacks, as outrage and sympathy flooded his social media feeds and filled the airwaves, Baghdad resident Ali al-Makhzomy updated his Facebook cover photo to read...
View ArticleWest accused in Middle East of double standard
The Associated PressBAGHDAD (AP) — Within hours of last week’s Paris attacks, as outrage and sympathy flooded his social media feeds and filled the airwaves, Baghdad resident Ali al-Makhzomy updated...
View ArticleAs world mourns Paris, many in Mideast see double standard
Within hours of last week’s Paris attacks, as outrage and sympathy flooded his social media feeds and filled the airwaves, Baghdad resident Ali al-Makhzomy updated his Facebook cover photo to read...
View ArticleAs world mourns, some see double standard
BAGHDAD — Within hours of the last week’s Paris attack, as outrage and sympathy flooded his social-media feeds and filled the airwaves, Baghdad resident Ali al-Makhzomy updated his Facebook cover photo...
View ArticleThe people of Beirut, forgotten after ISIS bombings, united by pain
BEIRUT, Lebanon — In the gathering dusk of the autumnal evening, the first blast tore through the busy shopping streets in Beirut's southern suburb of Burj al-Barajneh. Within minutes, a second...
View ArticleMany in Iraq, Syria see double-standard in world's response IS attacks
Within hours of the last week's Paris attacks, as outrage and sympathy flooded his social media feeds and filled the airwaves, Baghdad resident Ali al-Makhzomy updated his Facebook cover photo to read...
View ArticleMideast perceives double standard in Paris empathy
Baghdad – Within hours of last week’s Paris attacks, as outrage and sympathy flooded his social media feeds and filled the airwaves, Baghdad resident Ali al-Makhzomy updated his Facebook cover photo to...
View ArticleCollegiate has tie to school near bombing in Lebenon
Students and teachers at the Collegiate School are awaiting news from Beirut after two suicide bombs went off near a refugee school with ties to the private Henrico County school. Clare Sisisky,...
View ArticleTwin Suicide Blasts in Beirut Kill 43; IS Claims Responsibility
VOA News Lebanon is observing a national day of mourning Friday for the 43 people killed in twin suicide bombings in a Beirut suburb. The Health Ministry says 239 people were wounded in the blasts...
View ArticleTerror network behind Beirut blasts busted
Beirut, Nov 16 (IANS) Lebanon arrested the entire network behind the suicide bombings in southern Beirut suburb of Bourj al- Barajneh within 48 hours, according to the...
View ArticleDouble standard in responses to terrorist attacks is condemned
Egypt lit the Giza pyramids on Sunday night with the colours of the flags of both France and Russia in solidarity with the victims of Islamic State attacks that killed 129 people in Paris and 224...
View ArticleMore Than 30 Reportedly Killed As Bombs Hit Hezbollah Area Of Beirut
2:56 PM ET Bill Chappell Twitter i People gather near the site of a twin suicide attack in Burj al-Barajneh, southern Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday. The self-proclaimed Islamic State has claimed...
View ArticleLebanon mourns victims of deadly suicide bombings
BEIRUT — Schools and universities across Lebanon were shuttered Friday as the country mourned victims of twin suicide bombings that struck a crowded neighborhood south of the capital. The bombings...
View ArticleFamilies mourn victims of Beirut suicide bombings
Among those killed are man who threw himself at second bomber as relatives decry Isis attackers: ‘May they get worse than what happened to us’...
View ArticleLebanon mourns victims of deadly blasts in Shiite district
A three-year-old Lebanese boy orphaned in the deadly twin suicide blasts that ripped through a southern Shiite neighborhood of Beirut is not likely to remember much of the explosion that killed his...
View ArticleHaidar's story: Orphaned by an ISIL bomb in Beirut
What if Leila Taleb and her husband, Hussein Mostapha, had decided not to visit Leila's sister on that Thursday evening? What if they hadn't stopped en route to buy their three-year-old son Haidar his...
View ArticleAnxiety grips Lebanon following blasts, arrests
Share PhotoReddit✉ FILE - In this Thursday, June 26, 2014, file photo, Lebanese police intelligence agents gather outside Beirut's Ramada Hotel after security forces raided the building in Beirut....
View ArticleSuicide bombing on passenger van in Lebanese capital's southern suburbs...
Published February 03, 2014Associated Press Lebanese investigators inspect damages after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a passenger van in the Choueifat district southern Beirut, Lebanon, Monday,...
View ArticleLebanon: Suicide blast in south Beirut wounds 6
Share Photo✉ Lebanese army solider's stand guard near damages after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a passenger van in the Choueifat district southern Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. A...
View ArticleTwin suicide attack hits Beirut's Shiite suburb, killing 3
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese officials and state media say a twin suicide attack has struck a Shiite suburb in southern Beirut, killing at least three people....
View ArticleAnalysis: Just as innocent - comparing Beirut and Paris
Because the Lebanese community is one of Australia's largest and oldest immigrant groups, it was not entirely surprising to see Lebanon's flag projected on to Sydney's iconic Opera House as published...
View ArticleExplosion rocks Beirut hotel during security raid
Share PhotoReddit✉ Lebanese security forces carry the coffin of Abdul-Karim Hodroj, a security officer who was killed on Tuesday by a car bomb, during his funeral procession in the southern suburb of...
View ArticleCollegiate has tie to school near bombing in Lebanon
Students and teachers at the Collegiate School are awaiting news from Beirut after two suicide bombs went off near a refugee school with ties to the private Henrico County school. Clare Sisisky,...
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