Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

Foreign Information Deputy Assistant at the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information, Faisal al-Mutalaqem, arrived on Sunday evening at Beirut International Airport, whereby he will be representing Kuwaiti Information Minister at the international conference organized by the National News Agency. Greeting the Kuwaiti Official at the Airport […]

Former Prime Minister Najib Mekati rejected via Twitter, on Sunday, “any attack against the Premiership position or the person of Prime Minister Saad el-Hariri,” considering it “unacceptable” while supporting citizens’ legitimate right to demonstrate and express their opinions.

President Michel Aoun will not sign a decree that calls on electoral bodies to hold parliamentary elections on June 18, a media report said. “A technical extension of the electoral deadlines is inevitable,” Baabda Palace sources told the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa newspaper in remarks published Sunday. […]

Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai presided over the Sunday’s mass at the Church of Saint Joseph-Aintoura in celebration of Saint Joseph. During his sermon, Rai urged Lebanese officials to put an end to corruption and bribery. “We call on the political parties and Lebanese officials to […]

The Communist Party and the Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth staged Saturday a sit-in outside Lebanon’s central bank in Hamra to protest against a decision to raise the taxes and to call for passing the pay scale. In this context, the Secretary General of the […]

Airport – Middle East News Agency Board of Directors Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Alaa Haidar, and Xinhua News Agency Director in the Middle East, Zheng Hu, arrived in Beirut on Sunday, in order to participate in the International Conference organized by the National News Agency. Greeting […]

Lebanese anti-government protesters wave national flags and hold a banner in Arabic that reads, “We will not pay,” during a protest against new taxes in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) BEIRUT: Demonstrators in downtown Beirut pelted Lebanese Prime Minister Saad […]

President Michel Aoun stressed Saturday that the internal danger threatening Lebanon and the Christians in the Middle East has receded with the expiration of the crisis in the Middle East, noting that this danger will remain represented by groups targeting everybody. Commenting on the issue […]

Israel will continue to “prevent the transfer of advanced weapons to Hizbullah” and “in the next war there will be a clear address: the Lebanese government,” Israeli army chief Gadi Eisenkot said on Sunday. “There’s been quiet on the Lebanese border for over a decade. […]