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 … ]
Last year outgoing US president Barack Obama abstained, allowing a vote against Israeli settlements to pass The United States vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution on Monday that rejected President Donald Trump’s move to [ 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 … ]
A much-awaited live interview was done with Hariri on Sunday night by Future TV, a channel associated with his political party. It sought to dispel those rumors, but also raised some new questions. When Lebanon’s [ More … ]
Hezbollah’s chief Hassan Nasrallah said the recent, unprecedented resignation of Lebanon’s prime minister was imposed by Saudi Arabia, during a speech reacting to the move on Sunday. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has claimed that the [ More … ]
Saad Hariri has announced his resignation as Lebanon’s prime minister and implicitly blamed Iran and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, for his decision. In a televised address from “Saudi Arabia”, Hariri criticized Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, accusing [ More … ]
Shell is considering buying gas from the Israeli Leviathan field in the Mediterranean for sale in the Egyptian market, according to media reports. Royal Dutch Shell is considering buying Israeli gas for sale in Egypt [ More … ]
A military source said that Lebanese military intelligence units have detained a Daesh senior member. Lebanese military intelligence units have detained an Islamic State (Daesh) senior member responsible for an assault on the country’s troops in 2014 on the [ More … ]
Lebanon has become the latest Middle Eastern country to repeal a law allowing rapists to escape punishment if they marry their victims. Lebanon’s parliament has abolished a law that allowed a rapist to escape punishment [ More … ]
The head of powerful Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah said on Sunday that it is time for the world to accept that Assad will stay on as Syria’s leader. The head of powerful Lebanese Shia group [ More … ]
US Special Forces are operating in Lebanon ahead of an imminent battle with Islamic State group militants near the north-eastern border with Syria, the department of defence has confirmed. US Special Forces are operating in [ More … ]
The refugees and fighters from al-Qaeda’s former Syrian branch arrived in bus convoys into the rebel-held area of Al-Saan in the central Syrian Hama province. Nearly 8,000 Syrian refugees and fighters from Lebanon arrived in [ More … ]
Thousands of refugees on the Syria-Lebanon are set to be transferred to Syria’s Idlib province under the second phase of the ceasefire deal struck between Hezbollah and Nusra Front. Thousands of Syrian refugees in Lebanon [ More … ]
The Lebanese army and Hezbollah fighters have extended their campaign into eastern Lebanon’s Ras Baalbeck, with a new offensive against IS after a ceasefire with al-Qaeda-linked militants. Hezbollah and the Lebanese army have extended their [ More … ]
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