Adam, 32, left his wife and newborn daughter in northern Nigeria five years back to seek employment in Lebanon. He had a contract offering him $200 a month to work in a cell phone shop in Beirut's Hamra neighborhood. According

The judiciary on Tuesday interrogated three suspects on charges of spreading misleading information regarding an alleged mass grave in the Jbeil town of Halat and released them pending completion of the investigation. Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat also ordered the

Reform [in Islam] will never end," argued professor Nasr Abu Zayd. "There is a sort of unawareness of the process of rethinking ... It is not a choice, [without it] culture and tradition would die." A professor of Islamic Studies

Many Iraqis have come to believe that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is just as much a dictator as Saddam Hussein was. "Maliki is a dictator who must be removed by all means," 35-year-old Abdel-Riza Hussein, a Mehdi Army member

Fallujah remains a crippled city more than three years after the November 2004 US-led assault. Unemployment and shortages of medical care and safe drinking water in the city 60 kilometers west of Baghdad remain a continuous problem. Freedom of movement

Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri criticized Tuesday "attempts to portray the political crisis in Lebanon as one between Lebanon and Syria and not an inter-Lebanese crisis." Berri was referring to Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's efforts to hold an Arab foreign ministers'

A donor conference for the reconstruction of the war-ravaged Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp will take place in mid-June, sources told The Daily Star on Tuesday.Estimates from last year pegged the total cost at more than $382 million for rebuilding

People do not learn from history, but learn [in the stream of] history - through bitter trials, rather than from what is written and read concerning the past," former President Amin Gemayel said during a conference on Tuesday to mark

The head of the Democratic Gathering, MP Walid Jumblatt, on Tuesday called for the reexamination of all the dossiers on events that occurred under the Lebanese- Syrian security regime. Jumblatt's call came in reply to a meeting held in the

Syria is supplying Lebanon's Hizbullah militia with rockets in violation of Resolution 1701, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak charged on Tuesday. "Resolution 1701 is not being applied. The transfer of rockets from Syria to Lebanon is continuing and Hizbullah's military

France on Tuesday awaited permission from Somalia to put six pirates on trial for hijacking a French yacht and holding its 30 crew members hostage for a week. The six pirates captured by French special forces were to be flown

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday ordered the police to protect Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, who said she had received death threats, the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported. "Following reports about threatening notes to Ms. Shirin Ebadi, the

French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a Chadian opposition leader Tuesday that he was determined to clarify the fate of missing Chadian politician Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh, his office said. Sarkozy told Lol Mahamat Choua, a former Chadian president and opponent

Pakistan's ruling coalition on Tuesday renewed its pledge to reinstate dozens of judges who were sacked by embattled President Pervez Musharraf, a minister said after a key high-level meeting. Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto

An Egyptian military court on Tuesday jailed 25 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood for up to 10 years for financing a banned organization and acquitted 15 others, a court official said. The Brotherhood's number three, Khayrat al-Shater, and fellow

Despite renewed US efforts to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement this year, popular views of the United States in the Arab world have actually worsened since 2006, according to a major new survey of public opinion in six Arab states.

Three Iranian students whose detention on charges of insulting Islam sparked protests from their colleagues have each been sentenced to around two years in jail, the judiciary said on Tuesday. The announcement that the three had been given prison terms

Israel carried out a successful test on Tuesday of a dummy ballistic missile that will be used in the development of an advanced missile interception system, the Defense Ministry said. The Blue Sparrow, developed by Israel's Armament Development Authority, Rafael,