Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

BEIRUT — Every Sunday, the gymnasium along Beirut’s airport highway echoes with the shouting and laughter of dozens of Syrian children enjoying a rare escape from a grim and confined life in exile. The Sport 4 Development program, run by the U.N. children’s agency, aims to […]

President Michel Aoun received on Thursday at the Baabda Palace a delegation of the Lebanese Banks Association headed by Joseph Tarabay. Talks reportedly featured high over the state’s budget and the country’s banking sector.   Aoun also received head of the Constitutional Council Dr. Issam […]

President Trump wants to hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents and 10,000 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to enforce his executive orders on immigration. It wont be easy. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly was blunt when asked by a member of Congress about […]

Iraqi security forces have recaptured Mosul airport, a key part of the government’s offensive to drive the so-called Islamic State (IS) from the western half of the city. The operation took four hours. IS continued to fire mortars at the airport from further inside the […]

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wants to ensure the U.S. nuclear arsenal is at the “top of the pack,” saying the United States has fallen behind in its weapons capacity. In a Reuters interview, Trump also said China could solve the national security […]

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday spoke positively about a border adjustment tax being pushed by Republicans in Congress as a way to boost exports, but he did not specifically endorse the proposal. Trump, who has lashed out at U.S. companies for moving operations and […]

A Conversation with the President of the Lebanese American Council for Democracy, Dr. Joseph Khalil  Dr. Khalil was born in Lebanon, in 1974. As a child and young adult, he was an active member of the Scouts du Liban and the Lebanese Red Cross; both […]

President Michel Aoun might call for a national dialogue among the leaders of the political parties in Baabda or he might agree with Prime Minister Saad Hariri on holding consecutive cabinet sessions, with the aim of reaching consensus over a new electoral law before the […]

12-member Israeli force crossed the electronic fence overnight in the outskirts of the southern border town of Mays al-Jabal in the Kroum al-Sharqi area, media reports said Wednesday. Troops planted spy devices consisted of a camera and a transmission instrument that are both solar powered, […]