Dr. Farid Fata will remain behind bars until trial after $9m bond revoked The oncologist ‘systematically defrauded Medicare by submitting false claims for services that were medically unnecessary,’ authorities say Woman claims her mother died of kidney failure after too… Read More ›
Lebanon
Does Obama know he’s fighting on al-Qa’ida’s side?
Robert Fisk Tuesday 27 August 2013 ‘All for one and one for all’ should be the battle cry if the West goes to war against Assad’s Syrian regime Getty Images If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he… Read More ›
Dozens dead as Syrian war spreads to Sidon in Lebanon
Snipers out on the streets as Lebanese army scours city for anti-Hezbollah cleric Richard Hall Monday, 24 June 2013 Sniper fire echoed across the Lebanese city of Sidon last night as violence fuelled by the civil war in neighbouring Syria… Read More ›
Tense in Cyprus, National Guard burns German Flags
Friday, 22 March 2013 Cypriot national guard soldiers have removed German flags from two building and burn them. The buildings housed German soldiers who are engaged in UN peace mission in Lebanon. Bank employees are protesting in Nicosia, earlier in… Read More ›
Israeli air strike: Syria and Iran vow to retaliate
Arab League, Egypt condem attack. But target remains unclear 31 January, 20:45 An Israeli F-15 jet fighter (archive) (ANSAmed) – BEIRUT – Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, has been quoted by US media as saying that “there… Read More ›
Iran claims production of new advanced drone
The Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s media is reporting the country has produced a domestically-made drone capable of hovering in midair. The Sunday report by several newspapers including the conservative Resalat says an advanced vertical take-off and landing or… Read More ›
Iran claims to have images of Israeli military bases taken by a drone launched by Lebanon’s Hezbollah
Iran claims Iranian-made surveillance drones have made ‘dozens of undetected flights’ into Israeli airspace Israel has rejected the account By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:14:19 EST, 29 October 2012| UPDATED:14:19 EST, 29 October 2012 Hezbollah: Leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has said… Read More ›
Is Syria’s regime spreading turbulence as a survival tactic?
By stoking conflict in Lebanon and elsewhere Assad is raising the price neighbouring countries must pay for his overthrow Simon Tisdall guardian.co.uk, Monday 22 October 2012 11.12 EDT The funeral procession of Lebanon’s assassinated intelligence chief General Wissam… Read More ›