Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

Being friends means you will do something even if you don’t want to. So Qatar is going to buy 72 F-15QA fighter jets with weapons and related support from the US… The problem is it remains unclear whether the Middle Eastern nation actually need this […]

The European Parliament voted on Thursday in favor of a non-binding resolution on freezing Turkey’s EU accession talks. In the resolution, European Parliament lawmakers condemned “disproportionate repressive measures” taken by the government in the aftermath of the abortive coup, claiming they violated “basic rights and […]

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi said Wednesday his country’s support of the Syrian regime against what he called “extremists” is necessary for the stability of the region. “Our priority is to support national armies, for example in Libya to assert control over Libyan territories and […]

Political parties are obliged to agree on the controversial distribution of ministerial portfolios within a week time limit, otherwise they will be compelled to agree on a government line-up set by President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, media reports said on Thursday. Aoun […]

President of the Lebanese Republic, General Michel Aoun, said that Lebanon “will rise again, there are signals of improvement, the state will return strong, Lebanon will return to be the first financial, economic and ethical center in the East. I will work on protecting the […]

MP Ibrahim Kanaan of the Free Patriotic Movement announced Thursday that the so-called “Christian agreement” between the FPM and the Lebanese Forces “has established a new balance and a new equation” in the country, as LF official Melhem Riachi noted that Christians “have regained their […]

“Our share in the government is a total right for us,” said LF Deputy Antoine Zahra, in an interview with the Free Lebanon radio station. “The momentum that was created upon the arrival of President Aoun to office is being tampered with by hampering the […]

Owner of a Mexican cement company expressed his desire to provide cement for the US President-elect’s effort to secure the border between the two countries from the onslaught of rife organized crime. US presidential candidate Donald Trump leaves after a joint press conference with Mexican […]

Record high temperatures in the United States could outpace record lows by 15 to 1 before century’s end, report scientists. The United States has experienced unusual warmth lately, as indicated by this July 22, 2016, weather map showing much of the country facing highs in […]