Lebanon’s waste war escalated yesterday when angry demonstrators tried to pull down razor-wire barricades and storm the parliament in Beirut. Riot police responded with tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets – actions that wounded more than 35 Internal Security Forces (ISF) members and an unspecified number of protesters, according to an online statement released by Lebanon’s ISF. Images of live action from the streets quickly posted to social media, including several shots of bullet casings, stirring rumors that Lebanese police were using live ammunition. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq ...

Bring up faith in the Middle East, and three Abrahamic religions will dominate the convo. Islam, Christianity, and Judaism form the triad of True Faith, but other native-born belief systems have also shaped the face of our region, providing identity and moral guidance for people here and across the world. The Middle East is rich in religious history, and where strong faiths collide and compete for dominance, persecution and war inevitably follow. The rights and religious freedom of the Zoroastrians - perhaps the planet’s oldest organized faith - were first ...

Syrian opposition fighters may not always have the tools or the funds for high-tech weaponry — so if they want a job done, they do it themselves . Time and again, the rebels have shown they know how to make something out of nothing. From handmade hand grenades wrapped with 7-Eleven sale tape, to armored vehicles using PlayStation controllers, soldiers-gone-rogue know exactly how to use their resources to stay in the fight. Rebel groups aren’t the only ones in the war that have made them with amateur hands; Daesh (ISIS) ...