I thought there would be no words to describe what happened in the streets of Beirut on Saturday, but there are.
Lebanese security forces have detained a wife and son of the secretive leader of the Islamic State (IS) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, after they were discovered in a town near the Syrian border.
The US has negotiated support from ten Arab states to help them tackle the threat of the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere.
Crowdfunding campaigns have been used to finance everything from connected watches to a Veronica Mars movie, but in Lebanon they are also now being used to help save a Tripoli’s historic library and the important ancient books it contains.
In my part of the world, Ariel Sharon was known as the “Butcher of Beirut.” Even though his bloody legacy began to be built decades before he led the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 – through years of killing Palestinians in British-controlled Palestine prior to the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 – he will still be primarily remembered for the responsibility he bore for Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila Massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of the same name.