Voting is extended in Iran's presidential election as "unprecedented" numbers of voters flock to polling stations.

Nasiriyah (Iraq), At least 30 people were killed and 70 wounded in a car bombing in a market area in...

British officials say Laith al-Khazali's release is part of Iraqi government's efforts to reconcile with groups agreeing to renounce violence

Officials have given conflicting accounts of death toll from blast in Bathaa, near Nasiriya

Three contractors released on bail for lack of evidence; two other Americans remain in custody for suspected drug offenses

American University of Beirut (AUB) President Peter F. Dorman announced Thursday that Mohamed H. Sayegh, MD of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts has been selected as the university's next vice president for medical affairs and Raja N. Khuri dean

The American Community School at Beirut (ACS) held its 98th commencement exercises for the graduating class of 2009 on Friday June 5, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in the Assembly Hall at the American University of Beirut (AUB), followed by a

Tourism Minister Elie Marouni said Thursday the bulk of the Lebanese who arrived in Lebanon in May and the first week of June came to take part in the parliamentary elections which saw March 14 retain the majority in the

MP-elect Sleiman Franjieh has decided to move to live in Beirut from the northern town of Bnashi in order to be close to Parliament, Al-Akhbar newspaper reported Thursday. It said Franjieh plans to stand alongside Free Patriotic Movement leader MP

Two elderly sisters arrested for possessing Israeli documents were released from custody on Wednesday. The women, reportedly in their early 70s, are both Lebanese citizens currently living in Occupied Jerusalem. The pair flew into the Rafik Hariri International airport last

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said in comments to be published Friday that had the opposition won the June 7 parliamentary polls, "Syria and Iran would have taken control of our country." "They [the opposition] wanted to take over Lebanon,

Despite its defeat in Lebanon's polls, the powerful Iranian-backed Hizbullah suffered no erosion of support in its own Shiite base and will brook no challenge to its weapons. Hizbullah won acclaim across the Arab world for fending off Israel's military

US envoy George Mitchell arrived in Beirut Thursday, just days after Lebanon's pivotal parliamentary elections, for meetings with President Michel Sleiman and other high ranking officials. Mitchell, US President Barack Obama's special regional envoy and a former US Senate Majority

Dubai Culture and Arts Authority has announced it's aiming to build a fashion and design district and change legislation to persuade foreign artists to take up residence in a new "arts neighborhood." The plans are the latest move in a

Nobody ever says 'no' to me," says writer and photographer Barbara Abdeni Massaad. "I'm not sure why." Chatting with Massaad over coffee and cake in her kitchen, which in recent years has doubled as a laboratory for the writer's culinary

As the economic recession weakens demand for works from elsewhere in Latin America, collectors say the Cuban art market is showing signs of vitality. A Cuban painting was the top seller in May's Latin American art auctions in New York.