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NNA – “Change and Reform” parliamentary bloc member MP Simon Abi Ramia stressed on Saturday that the most important titles of the new presidential era would be fighting corruption, separating authorities and strengthening transparency and control authorities. Abi Ramia told “Voice of Lebanon” radio station […]

Lebanese Forces MP Antoine Zahra clarified that claims alleging that the LF wants to exclude certain political parties from the new government were untrue, As Sharq al-Awsat daily reported on Saturday. “There is a difference between a government of national unity and a government that […]

Speaker Nabih Berri has warned PM-designate Saad Hariri that the Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea plans to keep the Kataeb party and Marada Movement out of the new government formula, al-Akhbar daily reported on Saturday. The daily said that Geagea is trying to limit the […]

Hariri ends ‘positive’ consultations to form govt Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri ended consultations with parliamentary blocs Saturday following two days of talks over the formation of a new government ahead of his meeting with President Michel Aoun.

SAMAQA, IRAQ — When Islamic State insurgents fired mortar bombs at Iranian Kurdish women fighters holding a desert position in northern Iraq, the women first hit back by singing through loudspeakers. Then the women opened fire with machine guns. “We wanted to make them angry. To […]

Germany plans security investigations of all military recruits from July 2017 after its military counter-espionage service (MAD) identified 20 Islamists in the country’s armed forces, German media group Funke reported on Saturday. A spokesman for the agency confirmed the figure, adding that 60 additional potential […]

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi special forces cleared buildings on Saturday in neighborhoods they entered in eastern Mosul a day earlier, after pushing out Islamic State militants in their drive to take back the city, as new images emerged of the barriers the extremist group […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says his presidential run is a movement and a “once-in-a-lifetime chance to take our government back” from wealthy campaign donors and special interests and return power to the American people. Trump is giving the Republican Party’s weekly radio address, and […]

BEIRUT (AP) — The opposition monitoring Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 74 civilians, including 25 children, have been killed in the 8-day-old rebel offensive on the government-held part of Aleppo city. Opposition fighters launched a protracted attack on the western edge of […]