Tag: Lebanon

Students from across the world meet during the FIRST Global robotics challenge in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ahead of the Trend

Ahead of the Trend: The robots are coming. And these kids are ready for them.

Kristen Soltis Anderson · July 19, 2017 2:15 pm

"Wonder Woman" has had a long 76-year history as a feminist and American icon and those issues came to a head with the release of her first solo movie ever. (Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Why is everyone so angry over ‘Wonder Woman’?

Hoai-Tran Bui · June 3, 2017 6:34 pm

A six-member committee from the Lebanese Ministry of Economy made the decision to ban the film just hours before it was set to premiere. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon bans ‘Wonder Woman’ over Israeli actress Gal Gadot

Leah DePiero · May 31, 2017 5:19 pm

A Syrian woman with her kids remove the snow from the entrance of her tent, at an informal refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Marj near the border with Syria, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. President Donald Trump has barred all refugees from entering the United States for four months, and indefinitely halted any from Syria, saying the ban is needed to keep out "radical Islamic terrorists." (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Beltway Confidential

Trump is right to push for safe zones in Syria

Philippe Nassif · January 31, 2017 12:00 am

Gabbard’s Assad Trip–Courtesy of an Anti-Semitic Middle East Organization

Lee Smith · January 26, 2017 3:15 pm

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Calls for Reevaluation of Military Assistance to Lebanon

Jenna Lifhits · December 23, 2016 11:00 am

The Lebanese Army Is Misusing U.S. Aid

Lee Smith · November 14, 2016 9:27 pm

Presiding over Chaos

Lee Smith · November 4, 2016 6:00 am

Lebanon's environment minister said that the Syrian refugee crisis has had a "major adverse impact" on Lebanon's "water resources." (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Energy and Environment

Syrian crisis making it hard to meet climate deal, Lebanese official says

John Siciliano · September 15, 2016 5:52 pm

Hezbollah’s Strategy in Syria Won’t Help Against Israel

David Daoud · August 17, 2016 9:31 pm

Israel last month marked the 10th anniversary of the first Hezbollah war. Newspapers and television featured analysts noting a decade of quiet along the Israeli-Lebanese border. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The next war, they all assume

Eric Rozenman · August 16, 2016 4:03 am

A Saudi Arabian judo athlete refused to participate in her first-round match at the Summer Olympics in Rio Sunday, reportedly to avoid an Israeli competitor in the next round. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Saudi Olympic fighter refuses to compete against Israeli

Anna Giaritelli · August 8, 2016 9:54 pm