Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri held consultations Monday with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace after which he pledged to maintain good ties with Speaker Nabih Berri. “There are some obstacles in the cabinet formation process but we will try to resolve them,” Hariri said […]

Diet sodas have long been marketed as weight loss tools. The idea is that they allow people to enjoy the sweetness of regular soda, but without all the calories and weight gain. Some scientists, however, are highly skeptical that diet soft drinks, which contain artificial […]

(CNN)Thousands of people are fleeing the eastern, rebel-controlled part of Aleppo. Pro-regime forces have breached the once stable front lines in this battered city. The end is near. It’s the beginning of the end of the uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad that began […]

An Ohio State University student was shot dead by police after he plowed into pedestrians with a car and then stabbed multiple people with a butcher’s knife at the OSU campus in Columbus this morning, officials said. The scene is now secure, officials said. Eleven […]

The years-long standoff between government forces and rebel fighters in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo appears to be breaking in favor of the Syrian army. For much of Syria’s five-year civil war, forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have carried out relentless attacks and […]

Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Gebran Bassil, relayed a message from the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, to Brazilian President Michel Tamer, during a meeting at Sao Paolo’s Governor’s Palace on Sunday, which included an official invitation to visit Lebanon. In his message, Aoun […]

MP Ibrahim Kanaan of the Free Patriotic Movement has stressed the importance of the reconciliation between the FPM and the Lebanese Forces, noting that it aims to prevent “encroachment on the rights of Christians.” “A lot of people thought that we forged an agreement only […]

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri announced Sunday that the situations in the country “started to improve” after his appointment as PM-designate and Michel Aoun’s election as president. “The convention represents a new beginning for al-Mustaqbal Movement, which has a project for the country and is looking […]

MP Elie Marouni of the Kataeb bloc has stressed that his party will stand by newly-elected President Michel Aoun in order to “rebuild Lebanon.” “We in Kataeb will stand hand in hand by the president of the Lebanese republic, General Michel Aoun, in order to […]