The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday approved the appointment of former Lebanese culture minister Ghassan Salame as the new UN envoy to Libya, ending a contentious four-month search. The United Nations Security Council on [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch has called on Lebanese authorities to hold soldiers responsible for the “unlawful” public beatings of protesters last week in the capital Beirut. A rights group has called on the Lebanese authorities to [ More … ]
Eight international energy companies have pre-qualified to bid for exploration contracts. Lebanon’s government previously pre-qualified 46 companies back in 2013 but consequent political stasis ground the industry to a standstill. After years of delays, disputes, [ More … ]
The Lebanese army said it arrested ten suspected members of militant groups today after they came over the northeastern border from Syria, and a security source said a local Daesh leader was killed in the [ More … ]
Lebanese President Michel Aoun has suspended parliament for one month, to prevent it extending its own term for the third time in less than four years. Lebanese President Michel Aoun suspended parliament on Wednesday to [ More … ]
Armed clashes between Palestinian joint forces and an Islamic militant group that erupted on Friday night have continued into Saturday in Lebanon’s Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, as two have been reported dead amid the [ More … ]
Syrian refugees in Lebanon are being evicted and their businesses are being shut down, following new labour laws that have been subject to global condemnation. Following new labour laws that have been subject to global [ More … ]
Fifty masked, heavily armed Hezbollah fighters conducted a number of raids in drug warehouses in a south Beirut neighborhood on Friday night – without any Lebanese security forces present. Hezbollah forces carried out a series [ More … ]
Millions of Syrian refugees living in Lebanon’s borders have caused huge pressure to public services and infrastructure, according to the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Lebanon has reached “breaking point” Prime Minister Saad Hariri warned [ More … ]
US authorities charged on Friday a long-wanted alleged Hezballah financier extradited by Morocco with violating US terror-related sanctions. US authorities arrested a long-wanted alleged Hezballah financier Friday on charges of violating US terror-related sanctions, after [ More … ]
The International Crisis Group has found that Lebanon’s Hezbollah has alienated key support by using sectarian prehistoric in its strategy in Syria. Hezbollah risks alienating supporters over its current strategy in Syria, a report by [ More … ]
An aide of Lebanon’s Grand Mufti attempted to give a headscarf to France’s Marine Le Pen before meeting the highest Sunni cleric in the country, but she moved toward her car and left. France’s far-right [ More … ]
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will visit Lebanon next week for talks with leaders of Paris’s former mandate territory, a Lebanese government source said Wednesday. “Madame Le Pen will be in Beirut on the [ More … ]
Lebanese President Michel Aoun started Monday his first visit to Cairo since he was elected last October for talks with his counterpart Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi. In a joint press conference, al-Sisi said his talks with the Lebanese [ More … ]
The visit of Saudi State Minister for Arab Gulf Affairs, Thamer al-Sabhan to Beirut this week has pushed the Lebanese-Saudi relations towards a positive stage particularly with a decision taken from Riyadh to appoint a [ More … ]
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