Lebanon battled rapidly spreading wildfires for a third straight day Friday after they destroyed pine forests and threatened homes in northern areas. The blaze that started Wednesday in Lebanon’s remote Akkar region “is spreading quickly over large areas,” Agriculture Minister Abbas Mortada told AFP. “It’s spreading in all directions” fanned ...
Lebanese Armed Forces Chief Major General Joseph Aoun addressed soldiers in Order of the Day on the 76th Army Day Anniversary. “On the first of August this year, Lebanon is at the threshold of the first anniversary of the fateful port blast that hit the heart of the capital and ...