Lebanon

Seagulls search for food near a sewage discharge area next to piles of plastic bottles washed away by the water on the seaside of Ouzai, south of Beirut, on July 19th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Voters mostly stayed home for the country's first elections in nearly a decade, and in the end, the same families remained in power.

• By Kenneth R. Rosen

Ahead of elections next week in Lebanon, it's looking like corruption as usual.

• By Kenneth R. Rosen

Lebanese Kurds take part in a protest near the European Commission offices in Beirut on January 28th, 2018, against the ongoing Turkish military campaign in the Kurdish-held Syrian enclave of Afrin.

• By Pacific Standard Staff