Month: November 2016

The Lebanese Armed Forces issued on Friday a statement about a security wall being built around a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon. “It’s only a protective fence in some areas that don’t oversee residential regions. The military command affirms that there is no decision […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump pressed forward Friday with two more administration picks, as failed Green Party candidate Jill Stein took new steps to force recounts across key Midwestern battlegrounds that could complicate Trump’s push for national unity. Stein, who earned little more […]

Iraq is readying a special force tasked with storming Tal Afar, a bastion of Islamic State west of Mosul, in a way that would avoid revenge killings against the town’s Sunni population. Capturing or isolating Tal Afar from Mosul is a key part of the […]

Russia has repeatedly introduced so-called humanitarian pauses in Syria’s Aleppo, but every time they were sabotaged by lack of initiative from the United Nations representatives and actions of terrorists, the Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said. “Russia has repeatedly introduced humanitarian pauses […]

The Judicial Council, the Lebanese court that handles cases related to national security, launched Friday an in absentia trial in the case of the 1982 assassination of president-elect Bashir Gemayel, calling on Habib Chartouni — who confessed to planting the bomb before escaping prison — […]

Lebanese forces (LF) leader, Samir Geagea, said on Friday that the country “needs an efficient and productive government able to take quick decisions,” describing his relation with the House Speaker, Nabih Berri, as “friendly.” Geagea’s words came during his meeting with a press delegation in […]

Claims about some attempts planning to “weaken” the term of President Michel Aoun by obstructing the formation of the cabinet are not accurate, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday. Free Patriotic Movement sources told the daily that reports circulating about attempts to obstruct the term of […]

The Future parliamentary bloc congratulated on Thursday the Lebanese people on the occasion of the Independence Day, affirming that the military parade organized in the presence of the President and all the leaders left a positive impact, noting that the Lebanese State is determined to […]

Prime Minister Saad Hariri received this evening at the “Center House” the Regional Director for the Near and Middle East and the Maghreb at the German Federal Foreign Office Philipp Ackermann, in the presence of the German Ambassador to Lebanon Martin Huth. They discussed the […]