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Demonstrators wave the Palestinian flag and leftist flags during a demonstration against the US peace plan proposal, near the US embassy in Awkar, northeast of the capital Beirut on February 2, 2020. ANWAR AMRO / AFP

February 3rd, 2020 - 07:40 GMT

Anti-Century Deal Protest Outside Beirut’s US Embassy Turn Violent as Police Use Pepper Spray

Angry Lebanese and Palestinian protesters staged a sit-in on Sunday outside the US Embassy to protest the “deal of the century,” which US President Donald Trump announced last week. The Lebanese Army and the Internal Security Forces set up a perimeter using barbed wire and iron barriers on the Dbayeh Highway leading to the US Embassy in Awkar, 11 km north of Beirut. The protesters raised Palestinian flags as well ...

Many folks of the Arab world remember Sharon for his bloody massacre of Palestinians in Lebanon in the early 1980s (AFP)

January 12th, 2014 - 08:10 GMT

Remembering Ariel Sharon: Will the "bulldozer's" death reignite political turmoil between Israel and the Arab world?

Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Jihad step on a poster bearing a portrait of former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon who died after being in a coma for eight years, aged 85. (AFP)

January 12th, 2014 - 06:53 GMT

HRW: Sharon should have faced justice for Sabra and Shatila massacre

Israel's 11th premier Ariel Sharon dead.

January 11th, 2014 - 03:32 GMT

Israel loses Ariel Sharon but no love lost from Arabs

Sharon bore responsibility "for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge" and "not taking appropriate measures to prevent bloodshed." [AFP]

January 11th, 2014 - 03:09 GMT

Arab public enemy #1 - Ariel Sharon remembered as a blood thirsty war criminal

A file picture taken in October 1973 and provided by the Israeli Army shows Ariel Sharon with Moshe Dayan on the western side of the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippor war. [AFP]

January 11th, 2014 - 01:58 GMT

Timeline: major events in the life of Ariel Sharon

Iranian Navy fires a Mehrab (Altar) missile during the Velayat-90 naval drills in the general area of Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on January 1, 2012. [Press TV]

January 11th, 2014 - 01:38 GMT

Iran commander: Hezbollah's missile power improved

Ariel Sharon, who has a mixed reputation from his Arab neighbours, has died aged 85. (AFP/File)

January 11th, 2014 - 01:17 GMT

The "Lion of God": Ariel Sharon's mixed legacy in the Middle East

Former Israeli prime minister dies, eight years after he went into coma following a stroke. [AFP]

January 11th, 2014 - 01:17 GMT

Ariel Sharon: 'The Butcher of Beirut' dies at 85 after eight years in coma

Defense lawyers for Salim Ayyash at the Special Tribunal of Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. [The Daily Star]

January 11th, 2014 - 01:01 GMT

Lebanon urged to boost efforts for arrest of Hariri killing suspects

AIn Al Hilweh, the Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon's south considered a "hotbed" for militants, fears a possible armed sectarian clash with Hezbollah forces due to the latter's politics at home and in Syria (Courtesy of the Guardian)

January 9th, 2014 - 07:29 GMT

Lebanon's Palestinians fear sectarian clashes with Hezbollah imminent

Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for the November bomb attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut (File Archive/AFP)

January 8th, 2014 - 08:20 GMT

Experts: Lebanese army "likely" to be attacked by Al Qaeda-linked brigade in coming days

Al Qaeda started off as a small service program in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion in the 1980s (Courtesy of Foreign Policy)

January 7th, 2014 - 01:21 GMT

From service office to global terrorist network: The story behind Al Qaeda