Month: December 2016

DÉCRYPTAGE Scarlett HADDAD | OLJ15/12/2016 Les fêtes de fin d’année risquent d’être entachées de tristesse pour les Libanais. Et en particulier pour les familles des soldats entre les mains de l’État islamique (EI) depuis leur disparition dans la foulée de la bataille de Ersal en […]

The fight for Aleppo is over. Bombardment by Syrian and Russian jets and deadly ground operations brought an end to the siege; thousands of civilians are fleeing amid reports of mass killings by government forces and allies. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports and […]

President Bill Clinton preferred to read his daily intelligence briefing in paper form. George W. Bush insisted on a daily in-person briefing. President Obama consumes his digitally, on a custom tablet. Presidents have different styles when it comes to the briefing, or the President’s Daily […]

U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein says he is “appalled” by the apparent collapse of a cease-fire deal in Aleppo that would have allowed civilians to evacuate the war-torn Syrian city, where heavy fighting resumed on Wednesday. “While the reasons for the breakdown […]

In the months leading up to the assault on the Iraqi city of Mosul, Islamic State militants manufactured tens of thousands of mortar rounds, rockets, bombs and ammunition — part of an industrial-scale enterprise across the self-styled caliphate that’s been producing weaponry to a standard […]

After the Syrian Armed Forces ousted militant groups from eastern Aleppo, freeing the city from rebel control, media outlets including the New York Times immediately cried foul. Hundreds of people were seen celebrating throughout Aleppo immediately after the Syrian government announced that the entire city […]

A delegation of the Free Patriotic Movement met with Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh on Wednesday as part of a tour with various political parties to discuss the need to devise a new electoral law ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections. The delegation comprised […]

President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, informed the Director-General of FAO, Graziano da Silva, during their meeting at the Baabda Palace, in the presence of Agriculture Minister, Akram Shehayeb, that Lebanon is looking forward to supporting the organization in every project to be implemented […]

Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian, met on Wednesday at Dar al-Fatwa with the Egyptian ambassador to Lebanon, Nazih al-Najjari, who expressed his country’s commitment to the restoration of security and stability and to the resumption of institutional work in Lebanon. “It is […]