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A U.S. Marines Harrier AV-8B makes its way to a fueling boom suspended from a U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender during mid-air refueling support to Operation Inherent Resolve over Iraq and Syria air space, March 15, 2017. A U.S. airstrike is being blamed for having […]

NNA – Member of Parliament, Ibrahim Kanaan, on Thursday could not help but wonder how some sides were depicting the endorsement of the salary scale as a “huge crime” at the time that the matter had been thoroughly discussed by the joint parliamentary committees that […]

A Mass was held at St Maroun Church at the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchal Agency in Rome, in honor of President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, Lebanese First Lady Nadia Shami Aoun and his accompanying delegation, in the presence of dignitaries and Lebanese […]

Pope Francis received in audience this Thursday the Lebanese President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun. According to a press release by the Holy See, during this “cordial” discussion, the Lebanese President and the Holy Father pointed to the “excellent relations between the Holy See […]

A new debate erupted at the legislative session regarding the proposal to impose a fee of LBP 5 thousand on those who travel by land between Lebanon and Syria.   The debate included the political position concerning the issue of the bilateral agreements related to […]

Students from the Lycee Franco-Libanais School in Ashrafieh met with a number of politicians to ask them questions.   When they were unable to access the parliament, MP Hady Hbeish met them outside the building and answered their questions. Afterwards, they moved to the Grand […]

Deputy Speaker Farid Makari on Thursday adjourned a legislative session due to a lack of quorum and accused “those practicing obstruction” and Kataeb Party chief MP Sami Gemayel of jeopardizing the fate of the long-stalled new wage scale. Makari said he adjourned the session to […]

 protester holds up an Arabic placard that reads: “I only will pay the travel tax because I will leave and won’t come back,” as other wave Lebanese flags during a protest against the newly approved taxes, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 16, 2017.  BEIRUT: Lebanon’s […]

The Pentagon has considered increasing the U.S. military presence in Syria by up to 1,000 troops as the international battle to oust the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, from their de facto capital of Raqqa heats up. The U.S. has already deployed about 500 […]