Month: December 2016

News has travelled the world that an organised gang based in Ghana ran a fake embassy selling real US visas for $6,000 (£4,700) for “about a decade”. How did they get away with it for so long? The US State Department says Ghanaian and Turkish […]

WASHINGTON — Remarks by the U.S. secretary of state on Sunday are being quickly interpreted by the Israeli media as harsh criticism and undiplomatic. Before a predominately pro-Israel audience in Washington, John Kerry warned that the Jewish state is “heading to a place of danger” because […]

Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rahi met on Monday afternoon in Bkirki with Canada’s Foreign Minister, Stephane Dion, with talks reportedly dwelling on the overall situation in Lebanon and the broad region, notably the war in Syria and its implications on Lebanon. Talks also touched […]

Kataeb party urged on Monday to “bury” the 1960 election law “which saps partnership and excludes a huge category of the Lebanese,” calling for the endprsement of a voting system that guarantees correct representation. Turning to the government formation, the party called upon political sides […]

Unknown gunmen opened fire on Sunday overnight at an army position in in the Bekaa Sifrin town in Dinnieh. Two soldiers were initially wounded in the shooting, but one of the soldiers had succumbed to his wounds. The Lebanese army is heavily deploying now in […]

A war boat belonging to the Israeli enemy violated, at 3:33 pm today, the Lebanese territorial waters off Naqoura, and infiltrated some 240 meters into the sea for two minutes, a communiqué by the Lebanese army indicated on Monday. The Lebanese Armed Forces and the […]

A Canadian military veteran has been arrested by Kurdish forces in Erbil, Northern Iraq, under mysterious circumstances. Michael Kennedy has been fighting Daesh forces in Iraq as a volunteer since June, and was attempting to return to his native Newfoundland for Christmas. Kennedy served in […]

US airforces hit 63 Daesh fighting positions near the Libyan city of Sirte, according to the US military’s Africa Command. Fighters ride a pickup truck as smoke rises during a battle with Islamic State fighters in neighborhood Number Two in Sirte, Libya © AFP 2016/ […]

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri received this afternoon at the “Center House” China’s special envoy to Syria, Xie Xiaoyan, at the head of a delegation, accompanied by the Chinese Ambassador to Lebanon Wang Kejian, a statement by Hariri’s office indicated on Monday. After the meeting, the […]