Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

The cabinet session has ended at Baabda Palace, NNA field reporter said on Wednesday. The ministers, at the beginning of the cabinet session, stood a minute of silence for the lives of military personnel and civilians who have been killed in the last period, particularly […]

Minister of Information, Melhem Riachi, indicated that the ministerial council will convene every Wednesday, as reading out the decision of the new Cabinet’s first meeting at Baabda palace today. Riachi also confirmed that work would focus on preserving security and stability, as well as on […]

Free Patriotic Movement Leader, Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister, Gebran Bassil, said on Wednesday that real change started with the election of a new president and the formation of a new cabinet, adding that these national achievements will be culminated with a new electoral law […]

Prime Minister Saad Hariri chaired on Wednesday the first meeting by the ministerial committee tasked to draft a new ministerial statement. The meeting took place at 5:30 pm at the Grand Serail in presence of Ministers Marwan Hmadeh, Mohammad Fneish, Ali Hassan Khalil, Nouhad Mashnouk, […]

STATE DEPARTMENT —  U.S. officials expressed bafflement Wednesday over Kremlin comments that relations between Washington and Moscow are practically frozen. “I was just as much surprised as you,” a high-ranking U.S. official told reporters, adding that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov “should be asked about his […]

The Kremlin said on Wednesday almost all communications channels between Russia and the United States have been frozen but the U.S. State Department disputed the statement. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia did not expect the incoming U.S. administration to quickly reject enlargement of the […]

Bana Alabed – the seven-year-old Syrian who tweeted about life inside rebel-held east Aleppo – has met Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Bana and her little brother have been pictured sitting on Mr Erdogan’s knee in the presidential complex in Ankara. President Erdogan sent a […]

Carola Garcia-Calvo spends her days poring over Islamic State propaganda. It’s part of her job as a global terrorism analyst at Madrid’s Elcano Royal Institute, a think tank. Recently, she has noticed a shift. Most of the propaganda used to be published in an ISIS […]