Month: November 2016

Hariri ends ‘positive’ consultations to form govt Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri ended consultations with parliamentary blocs Saturday following two days of talks over the formation of a new government ahead of his meeting with President Michel Aoun.

SAMAQA, IRAQ — When Islamic State insurgents fired mortar bombs at Iranian Kurdish women fighters holding a desert position in northern Iraq, the women first hit back by singing through loudspeakers. Then the women opened fire with machine guns. “We wanted to make them angry. To […]

Germany plans security investigations of all military recruits from July 2017 after its military counter-espionage service (MAD) identified 20 Islamists in the country’s armed forces, German media group Funke reported on Saturday. A spokesman for the agency confirmed the figure, adding that 60 additional potential […]

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi special forces cleared buildings on Saturday in neighborhoods they entered in eastern Mosul a day earlier, after pushing out Islamic State militants in their drive to take back the city, as new images emerged of the barriers the extremist group […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says his presidential run is a movement and a “once-in-a-lifetime chance to take our government back” from wealthy campaign donors and special interests and return power to the American people. Trump is giving the Republican Party’s weekly radio address, and […]

BEIRUT (AP) — The opposition monitoring Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 74 civilians, including 25 children, have been killed in the 8-day-old rebel offensive on the government-held part of Aleppo city. Opposition fighters launched a protracted attack on the western edge of […]

NNA – Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Rai congratulated on Saturday Prime Minister-Designate Saad Hariri over the phone on his designation to form the new cabinet and on the confidence that the MPs gave him. The pair discussed the developments over the domestic scene […]

Caretaker Prime Minister Tammam Salam declared that his meeting with Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri at the beginning of the consultations to form a new cabinet focused on previous meetings that cleared the way before an upcoming era for the Lebanese people. Following their meeting held […]

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri assured the Lebanese that the government will be formed before the end of the year, as he slammed reports alleging that its formation will be lengthy, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday. “God willing the government will be formed soon,” he told […]