Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

A closed door meeting took place on Monday in Bkirki between Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rahi and Interior and Municipalities Minister, Nuhad Mashnouq, to deliberate over the latest political developments, notably government formation efforts. In the wake of the closed door meeting, Patriarch Rahi […]

President Michel Aoun met Monday with the President of the World Bank in the Middle Wast Farid Belhaj, in the presence of MP Ibrahim Kanaan. During the meeting, Aoun was handed a letter of support and confidence from the World Bank.

Turkish police detained 118 pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) officials Monday over alleged links to Kurdish PKK militants, state media reported. Country-wide operations were launched after an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for twin bombings that killed at least 38 people […]

The Lebanese Forces is “not concerned” with what Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh announced in Ain el-Tineh about Speaker Nabih Berri offering him the public works ministerial portfolio, LF sources announced on Monday. LF leader Samir Geagea “has not received any phone call from […]

Head of the Lebanese Democratic Party, MP Talal Arslan, welcomed, at his Khalda residence on Monday, a delegation of the Free Patriotic Movement, with whom he discussed latest developments, particularly the election law. “We visited MP Arslan to dwell on the election law. We both […]

Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rahi fervently deplored in a statement the terrorist bombing that rattled St. Peter church near St. Mark Cathedral and the pontifical seat of Orthodox Copts in Cairo Sunday morning which claimed the lives of 24 people and injured dozens. Patriarch […]

Egypt’s president says a suicide bomber carried out the bombing at Cairo’s Coptic Orthodox cathedral complex on Sunday that killed at least 25 people. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said authorities arrested three men and a woman in connection with the blast. The president was […]

Lebanese Forces leader, Samir Geagea, met, at his Maarab residence on Monday, with a delegation of the Change and Reform bloc’s lawmakers, comprising MPs Ibrahim Kanaan, Neemtallah Abi Nasr, Alain Aoun, Ghassan Mkhaiber, and Ziad Aswad, in presence of MP Antoine Zahra. Following the meeting, […]

The Syrian Army has officially liberated Aleppo after ousting rebels from their last bastions in the eastern part of the city. Earlier on Monday, the Syrian Arab Army made significant advances leaving only three residential blocks in the hands of anti-government forces. The rebels had […]