No fighting overnight as Lebanon’s prime minister calls on US and France to ‘intervene’ to prevent escalation. A cautious calm has returned to the southern Lebanese border amid international calls for restraint after Hezbollah and [ More … ]
Raid latest in series of cross-border Israeli attacks in Syrian and Lebanese territory Israeli air strikes targeted a Palestinian faction in eastern Lebanon before dawn on Monday, Lebanese state media and the group said. “Three [ More … ]
Sanctions target two Lebanese lawmakers and a top aide to Hassan Nasrallah The United States has imposed sanctions on Hezbollah political officials, including members of the Lebanese parliament, accusing the group of threatening the “economic [ More … ]
Lebanon’s new government will start preparing its policy statement on Monday, it said on Saturday, as investors monitor commitment to reforms aimed at boosting the economy. Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri told reporters he expected the [ More … ]
Playing host to an Arab economic summit, Lebanon also proposed creating an Arab bank to finance reconstruction in war-torn nations Lebanon urged world powers to step up efforts for Syrian refugees to return home regardless [ More … ]
Lebanon was plunged into crisis in November when Hariri resigned as prime minister while in Saudi Arabia, saying he feared assassination and criticizing the Saudis’ regional rival Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. Lebanese officials [ More … ]
Lebanese lawmakers designated Prime Minister Saad Hariri for a third term in office Thursday, less than three weeks after elections that saw his movement lose ground in parliament. “The head of state summoned prime minister [ More … ]
Preliminary results suggest potential coalition government by Hezbollah-Amal coalition and Free Patriotic Movement. The political coalition of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement is leading in preliminary results from Sunday’s Lebanese general elections. The coalition is [ More … ]
Israel’s spy agency Mossad is widely believed to have killed a number of Arab and Muslim scientists worldwide. A major function of the Israeli intelligence is obviously to follow the activities of the Arab nuclear [ More … ]
US imposes sanctions on six people and seven entities based in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Lebanon and Ghana The Trump administration on Friday imposed sanctions on six people and seven financial entities that it said are [ More … ]
The two leaders stress importance of Arab unity ahead of Arab League summit in Riyadh Lebanese President Michel Aoun led a delegation to Kuwait on Tuesday, his government’s first visit to the Gulf since the [ More … ]
Whether the government is led by Mr Hariri or someone else, it is still Hezbollah that will call the shots, said The Economist in a report on the rivalry of Iran and Saudi Arabia in [ More … ]
Lebanese PM Saad al-Hariri had been in Riyadh since announcing his resignation there on 4 November Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister this month while in Saudi Arabia, arrived in Paris on Saturday [ More … ]
Although Egypt’s financial backers put great expectations on it in the latest escalations with Iran, however it seems that al-Sisi tries to avoid any direct fight with Tehran. “Egypt faces high expectations from Saudi Arabia and its other Gulf Arab [ More … ]
Lebanese prime minister said that while he would be returning to Lebanon, his family would be remaining in the kingdom Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced on Twitter that he would be returning from Saudi [ More … ]
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