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Tim Arango entered the city of Mosul, Iraq, on Wednesday with Iraqi special forces soldiers. For the first time in more than two years, residents of eastern Mosul enjoyed a day without the Islamic State. As Iraqi security forces drove the muddy streets of the […]

By Zeina Karam and Philip Issa | AP October 31 BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, filling a post that had been vacant for more than two years and injecting hope that the country’s long-running political paralysis would come […]

The pattern of support for Lebanon’s new President reveals the cleavages within Lebanese and regional politics, Sami Atallah of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies told Radio Sputnik. On Monday Lebanese MP’s voted to elect former army commander General Michel Aoun to be the country’s […]

On October 31, after more than two years of political stalemate, Lebanon’s parliament elected General Michel Aoun as the new president. If At First You Don’t Succeed… The Lebanese parliament took 45 failed attempts to elect a president who, according to the country’s Constitution, can […]

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Michel Aoun, a charismatic retired general, polarizing Christian politician and ally to Hezbollah, was chosen president of Lebanon on Monday morning, ending a two-and-a-half-year vacuum that had tested the country’s ability to function without political leadership. Mr. Aoun, 81, has developed a […]

NNA – President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, received on Tuesday afternoon at Baabda Palace a delegation of Maronite Bishops, dispatched by Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rahi to offer congratulations to General Aoun on his election. On emerging, speaking in the name of […]

NNA – Caretaker Foreign Affairs Minister, Gibran Bassil, said, “After nominating head of Future Movement Saad Hariri to premiership by the Future Bloc, we agree on such nomination which is a normal stance. All our votes will be in favor of Hariri and we will […]

NNA – The Future parliamentary Bloc met this afternoon at the “Center House”. After the meeting, which was chaired by Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the following statement was issued, and read by MP Ammar Houry: “First: on the importance of the election of the […]

NNA – Head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, hailed on Monday the honesty and position of Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, calling the Lebanese to learn from his political ethics. “We never doubted your honesty or position towards us (…) it […]