Ash-Shiraa (or Al-Shiraa) (Arabic: الشراع| The Sail in English) is an Arabic weekly magazine published in Lebanon.
[1] The magazine is one of the oldest publications in the country.
[2] It is described as a pro-Syrian publication[3] and is based in Beirut.
[4] The magazine was the first to break the news that the United States had been secretly selling weapons to Iran, a scandal that eventually grew into the Iran-Contra Affair.
[3] The report was published in the magazine on 3 November 1986.