The long-mooted revival of the railway between Tripoli and the Lebanese-Syrian border may have finally found an investor, with profound implications not only for the economy of north Lebanon but for the balance of power in the wider Middle East.
Read MoreCaretaker Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil doubled down on his recent combative rhetoric toward the U.N. refugee agency Wednesday, extending his attacks to the wider international community. Bassil, speaking from a cave in which 10 Lebanese soldiers captured by Daesh (ISIS) in 2014 were held, said he was thinking “of the conspiracy that threatened our existence ... I am thinking of all those responsible in the international community who committed such a crime against Lebanon and Syria.”
Read MoreThree-year-old Sarah’s face was covered with black, necrotic skin from the frostbite. Appearing to sleep under a clean white blanket in a hospital in the Lebanese border town of Suweiri, the doctor said she had in fact been in a semi-comatose state since being brought in late last week.
Read MorePhotographs for a story by the Independent's Bethan McKernan on devastating fires that destroyed a camp for Syrian refugees in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
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