Month: February 2017

Pour beaucoup d’observateurs, la situation politique d’aujourd’hui ressemble fort à celle qui a précédé la vacance à la tête de l’État, lorsque toutes les parties internationales et de nombreuses parties internes mettaient l’accent sur le grand danger que constitue pour le Liban la non-élection d’un […]

Le 3 février dernier, Washington annonçait de nouvelles sanctions à l’encontre de 13 individus et 12 « entités » iraniennes dont certaines sont basées en Chine, aux Emirats arabes unis et au Liban, en « riposte » au dernier test d’un missile conventionnel par Téhéran. […]

President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, stressed during a joint press conference with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, in Baabda Palace the important role of the latter in preserving stability in Palestinian refugee camps to prevent their transformation into hotbeds for those who want to […]

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday following his meeting with President Michel Aoun at Baabda Palace “Palestinian refugees are guests in Lebanon until their certain return to their homeland Palestine.” Abbas said that they were from the beginning against terrorism. “We have called from […]

An Israeli enemy reconnaissance warplane violated on Thursday at 11;25 the Lebanese airspace and executed circular maneuvers over Beirut and its suburbs, Iklim el Kharoub and Jbeil, then left at 16;50 towards the occupied territories, the Army directorate said in a statement.

Army chief, Jean Kahwaji met on Thursday afternoon at his Yarze office with a delegation of the US Senate Armed Services, headed by Thomas Govos. Discussions focused on the general situation in Lebanon and the region as well as the US assistance to the Lebanese […]

The British Embassy announced Thursday that, in a demonstration of “the strength of the enduring UK-Lebanon partnership,” the Fleet flagship of the British Royal Navy will visit Lebanon next week. The visit will conclude a Middle East deployment of HMS OCEAN, which has seen the […]

Iraq said Thursday that its U.S.-backed forces had retaken the airport in Mosul, which Islamic State extremists had controlled since 2014. In a flash on its screen, state television declared, “The Rapid Response Forces and federal police are fully in control of the airport of […]

BEIRUT — Every Sunday, the gymnasium along Beirut’s airport highway echoes with the shouting and laughter of dozens of Syrian children enjoying a rare escape from a grim and confined life in exile. The Sport 4 Development program, run by the U.N. children’s agency, aims to […]