Beirut car bomb kills top security official | Reuters

A huge car bomb explosion in Beirut on Friday killed a top Lebanese security official whose investigations implicated Syria and Hezbollah in the assassination of former Lebanese prime …

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Top Security Official Among the Dead in Beirut Blast

The bombing at the heart of the city’s Christian section killed at least eight people and appeared to target Brig. Gen. Wissam El-Hassan, a top Lebanese security …

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More Than 90 Killed in Syria Attacks – WSJ.com

Gruesome video Saturday showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in bloody shorts and T-shirts with gaping head wounds, haunting images of what activists called one of the deadliest regime …

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Explosions Kill Dozens in Damascus – NYTimes.com

At least 55 people were killed and some 372 injured by two powerful car bombs that exploded outside a key intelligence compound in Damascus early on …

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Violence in Syria: Mission failure | The Economist

CRITICISMS of the Arab League observer mission in Syria are mounting as Bashar Assad’s regime continues to crack down on …

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A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs – NYTimes.com

I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives and our not yet furnished apartment and help us. Later, after I’d met my father, I tried to believe he’d changed his number and left no forwarding address because he was an idealistic revolutionary, plotting a new world for the Arab …

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