Depending on your favourite variety, the Islamic State is either the creation of Iran, Bashar al-Assad, Israel's intelligence agency the Mossad, or the United States. Annahar, once widely considered the best Arab newspaper, even ran a story recently (...)
The small village of Tfeil is found on a plateau of Lebanese land that juts into neighboring Syria. In fact, some might take Tfeil for more of a Syrian village than a Lebanese one. They use Syrian currency, 30 percent of the population are Syrian (...)