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of Saudi Arabia (AFP/ File Photo)

April 4th, 2018 - 12:00 GMT

Lebanese Prime Minister Names One of Beirut Streets After Saudi King Salman

Lebanese Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri, Tuesday at an official ceremony names a major street in Beirut after Saudi King Salman

The editor-in-chief of an Egyptian newspaper has been forced to apologise and declare his support of the country’s leader Abdel Fattah El Sisi (AFP)

September 5th, 2017 - 12:34 GMT

Egyptian Newspaper, 'Al Bawaba Egypt' Forced to Apologise for Criticising El-Sisi's Government

French president-hopeful Marine Le Pen. [Franck Pennant/ AFP]

February 19th, 2017 - 04:36 GMT

French firebrand Le Pen gets the cold shoulder from Lebanese social media

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses supporters in Beirut, Lebanon, on November 3, 2014. (AFP/File)

September 27th, 2016 - 09:41 GMT

Hezbollah leader Nasrallah says Wahhabism is worse than Zionism

In 2012 Al Safir had a circulation of 50,000 copies, making it the best-selling paper in Lebanon at the time. (Al Safir)

March 24th, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Lebanon's Al Safir newspaper folds after 42 years

The Giza Pyramids aren't in fact the oldest in Egypt (Wikimedia Commons)

June 23rd, 2015 - 03:53 GMT

Think you've seen the Egyptian pyramids? Think again.

This Syrian singer had someone say he had married again.

September 24th, 2014 - 01:16 GMT

Don't believe everything you read in the tabloids: George Wassouf defo doesn't have another wife

Al Bawaba

May 8th, 2014 - 06:37 GMT

Hariri trial postponed until late June

Nusra and ISIL fighters are in discussions of entering Lebanon in their fight against Hezbollah, but the two Al Qaeda-linked groups remain undecided on what acti

March 5th, 2014 - 08:38 GMT

Qaeda-linked groups in Syria ponder entering Lebanon

Supporters of Egyptian Army Chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi have accused TIME magazine of bias and "false democracy" after Pope Francis beat Sisi to the post for "Person of the Year". (AFP/File)

December 15th, 2013 - 05:45 GMT

Egyptian army fans furious over Sisi losing out on "Person of the Year" to Pope Francis

Bashar Assad - tyrant and prankster. The Syrian president told a Lebanese newspaper he should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (AFP/File)

October 15th, 2013 - 07:00 GMT

Jokes and war crimes: Nobel Peace Prize 'should have been mine', says Assad

Rapper Klay BBJ has been sentenced to six months in prison by Tunisian authorities. (Image credit: AFP)

September 27th, 2013 - 08:26 GMT

Tunisian rapper rhymes; now has to do time

A report released earlier today suggested that a US military strike on Syria may last for as long as three days.

September 8th, 2013 - 01:08 GMT

Report: The US plans to bomb Syria for three days