Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

A Lebanese registered ship hijacked off the coast of war-torn Somalia has been freed, says a shipping expert. The pirates who boarded the ship Saturday abandoned it Sunday before naval forces rescued the ship, Mohamed Abdirahman, former director of Puntland’s marine forces, told The Associated […]

The Free Patriotic Movement, the Lebanese Forces and the Kataeb Party intend to boycott any parliamentary session aimed at extending the legislature’s term in the absence of a new electoral law, a senior FPM official told al-Hayat daily in remarks published Sunday. The Cabinet is […]

Lebanon’s Christians celebrate Palm Sunday The Archbishop of Beirut, Bishop Boulos Matar, celebrated the Palm Sunday Das and the march of Palm Sunday in the church of St. Barbara and met in Baalbek From the symposium on Gaza in the Awqaf Hall Archbishop Dahir during […]

NNA – President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, condemned on Sunday the two terrorist crimes which targeted St. George Church in the Egyptian City of Tanta and St. Mark Church in Alexandria. In a cable to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Aoun expressed deepest condolences […]

Prime Minister Saad Hariri extended his condolences to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church as well as the Egyptian people over the death of the victims of the terror attack that rocked a Coptic church in […]

NNA – Minister of Information Melhem Riachy called, on Sunday, upon “Muslim and Christian brethrens in Egypt to ring church bells and raise prayer calls against terrorism, in order to affirm the will of peace and reveal it as a message to the West.” “What […]

NNA – House Speaker, Nabih Berri, cabled on Sunday Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, his Egyptian counterpart and Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Theodore II, condemning the terrorist attacks that targeted two Egyptian churches on Palm Sunday mass. Berri said that these […]

NNA – “Democratic Gathering” Head, MP Walid Jumblatt, cabled on Sunday Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah Sisi, and Pope Twadros II of Alexandria, condemning the two church bombings in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria. Jumblatt considered that “the repeated acts of terrorism fall within the context […]

Hizbullah central council member Sheikh Nabil Qaouq warned Sunday that “the course of the electoral law is going from bad to worse,” noting that the Tomahawk missiles that U.S. warships fired at a Syrian airbase at dawn Friday had “violated Lebanon’s airspace.” “Our eyes today […]