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Two explosions, at least one caused by a suicide bomber, rocked Iran’s embassy in Lebanon today, killing at least 23 people, including an Iranian cult(...)

If Kamal Mouzawak calls you cuckoo-crazy that’s a big compliment. The 44-year-old Lebanese restaurateur did something that many would have described a(...)

The first infographic produced for the website Visualising Palestine, published in February 2012, was sensational. It showed what happens during hu(...)

I’ve only passed Dublin’s Ashling Hotel at a heck of a lick in a car or the Luas, so have never noticed the plaque on the wall. The Austrian philosoph(...)

A flurry of back-room Middle East diplomacy led to an ambitious international prisoner swap on Saturday that freed Lebanese citizens held by Syrian r(...)

The Factory Girls: The play that put McGuinness on the map, back in 1982. Taking its inspiration from the writer’s mother, who worked in a shirt facto(...)

More than 100 Irish soldiers have been deployed for a six-month stint in the Golan Heights in war-torn Syria. The troops from the 43rd Infantry Group (...)

Guinness is good for food start-upsThe results of the Arthur Guinness Projects 2013 have been announced and the winning food projects will each receiv(...)

The outgoing lane from Beirut to the ancient port of Sidon is open but there is a steady stream of traffic into Beirut from the south. At the entrance(...)

Anticipating US strikes on Syria, the US state department has ordered nonessential embassy personnel and US citizens to leave Lebanon due to security (...)