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Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani reviews the honor guard as he arrives at the Rafik Hariri international airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

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Qatar boosts influence in Lebanon amid multiple crises
By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press
Sat,02/04/23-3:23AM , 652 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — Most wealthy Gulf Arab nations followed Saudi Arabia’s lead in recent years and ostracized crisis-hit Lebanon because of the growing influence of the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah. The exception was Qatar.
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William Noun, right, whose brother Joe was a firefighter and killed during Beirut blast on Aug. 4, 2020, talks to his fiancee Maria Fares, left, whose sister Sahar was also a firefighter and killed in the same blast, at the firefighter headquarters, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. It was a sad moment during which William Noun and Maria Fares met two years ago after their siblings were killed in Beirut's massive port blast. The couple got engaged this month and plan to get married next summer. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Couple who each lost a sibling in Beirut blast plan to marry
By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press
Wed,12/14/22-11:39AM , 494 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — William Noun and Maria Fares met during a moment of grief two years ago after each of them lost a sibling in Beirut’s massive port blast. Their shared pain developed into a bittersweet love story: Earlier this month Noun proposed to Fares and she said yes.
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Protesters throw bottles glasses at the Lebanese Central Bank building, background, where the anti-government demonstrators rally against the Lebanese Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh and the deepening financial crisis, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Lebanon's once burgeoning banking sector has been hard hit by the country's historic economic meltdown, suffering staggering losses worth tens of billions of dollars and leaving the future of the small nation's lenders unknown between closures and mergers. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

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Lebanese banks battered by meltdown struggle to survive
By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press
Thu,12/08/22-12:15AM , 363 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s once burgeoning banking sector has been hard hit by the country’s historic economic meltdown. It has suffered staggering losses worth tens of billions of dollars and many of the small nation’s lenders now face possible closures or mergers.
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FILE -- People look at a site damaged by Turkish airstrikes that hit an electricity station in the village of Taql Baql, in Hasakeh province, Syria, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. Turkish airstrikes on northern Syria over the weekend that killed and wounded a number of Syrian soldiers could pose a setback to the recent move toward a rapprochement between the two countries after 11 years of tension and hostility. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

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Turkish strikes on Kurds stoke tensions with Syria as well
By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press
Wed,11/23/22-1:12AM , 340 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — Russia has pushed for years for a reconciliation between its ally, the Syrian government, and Turkey, which stood on opposing sides in Syria’s civil war. Recent weeks saw the first small signs of possible progress.
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