Lebanese Journalist

He ran social media for Saudi Arabia's crown prince. He masterminded the arrest of hundreds of his country's elite. He detained a Lebanese prime minister. And, according to two intelligence sources, he ran journalist Jamal Khashoggi's brutal killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by giving orders over Skype.

A journalist who ignored a court order to take down internet videos that risked exposing the identities of witnesses in the case of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri's assassination was fined 10,000 euros ($11,000) on Monday.

A Lebanese journalist and her television channel are due to go before a UN-backed court today in a trial that critics say raises questions about press freedom, but which prosecutors say is essential to protect vulnerable witnesses.

Syrian activists and Lebanese journalists burned the Russian flag at a rally in downtown Beirut on Wednesday evening, in protest over the deaths earlier in the day of two foreign journalists in the besieged Syrian city of Homs.

He ran social media for Saudi Arabia's crown prince. He masterminded the arrest of hundreds of his country's elite. He detained a Lebanese prime minister. And, according to two intelligence sources, he ran journalist Jamal Khashoggi's brutal killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by giving orders over Skype.

A journalist who ignored a court order to take down internet videos that risked exposing the identities of witnesses in the case of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri's assassination was fined 10,000 euros ($11,000) on Monday.

A Lebanese journalist and her television channel are due to go before a UN-backed court today in a trial that critics say raises questions about press freedom, but which prosecutors say is essential to protect vulnerable witnesses.

Syrian activists and Lebanese journalists burned the Russian flag at a rally in downtown Beirut on Wednesday evening, in protest over the deaths earlier in the day of two foreign journalists in the besieged Syrian city of Homs.