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BEIRUT: Lebanon will present a comprehensive plan to help alleviate the enormous burden of Syrian refugees at an upcoming Syria conference in Brussels, but needs urgent international support to avoid collapse, Lebanon’s prime minister said Friday. Speaking to a group of journalists ahead of the April […]

Hizbullah party expressed dismay at a letter sent by five Lebanese Presidents and Prime Ministers to the Arab summit in Jordan, ahead of President Michel Aoun’s travel to take part in the summit, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday. The party likened the letter “to a […]

Hizbullah party is set to dispatch a delegation to the Presidential Palace to convey the party’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s “appreciation” for President Michel Aoun’s stance at the Arab summit in Jordan, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday. After Aoun’s return from Jordan, the President has […]

BEIRUT: The Netherlands will step up support for Lebanon’s Armed Forces as part of a large cooperation program aimed at bolstering the military’s border security and counterterrorism capabilities, Dutch Ambassador to Lebanon Han-Maurits Schaapveld told Annahar Wednesday. The support program – which will be split […]

Friday the 31st of March was the commencement of the European conference of the Lebanese Diaspora of the Tayyar movement that is being held in Gerona, Spain. All the European offices of the Assembly for Lebanon as well as a delegation headed by Minister Nicolas […]

Lebanon: Three suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants were killed and three others wounded in a bombing when a pickup truck they were in exploded in a northeast Lebanon border town on Thursday, a security source told The Daily Star. The incident took place in Arsal’s Jameh […]

Arab leaders and head of delegations attend the 28th Ordinary Summit of the Arab League at the Dead Sea, Jordan, March 29, 2017. CAIRO — The leaders of 21 Arab states examined the conflicts and crises facing their countries and the region as the 28th Arab […]

President Michel Aoun warned Wednesday that tiny Lebanon is reeling under the impact of the presence of around two million Syrian and Palestinian refugees on its soil, as he called for an end to the “wars among brothers” in the region. “Lebanon, which started to […]

President Michel Aoun on Wednesday held talks on the sidelines of the Arab Summit in Jordan with U.N. chief António Guterres and a number of Arab leaders. The meeting with Guterres was held in the presence of Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil, Lebanon’s National News Agency […]