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Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, said on Sunday during a televised speech that Hezbollah supported a cease-fire in Syria and the end of bloodshed, which paves the way for political solutions. In a televised speech marking the commemoration of a member of the Central […]

Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Gibran Bassil, said on Sunday during a visit to Byblos (Jbeil) that what makes Lebanon special is not only its diversity but the equity of representation and rule it provides its people. The Minister lauded Jbeil’s coexistence, dubbing the city a […]

  The reopening of Kleiat airport or Rene Mouawad Air Base, which is located at a distance of 6 kilometers from the Lebanese-Syrian border, is considered among the development projects that can highly benefit the regions of North Lebanon and Akkar.   This project is […]

MP Ammar Houri denied on Friday reports claiming that al-Mustaqbal Movement has shown “openness” to discussing an electoral law fully based on proportional representation that had been devised by Najib Miqati’s government. “Reports circulating that Mustaqbal has reached a format close to the so-called hybrid […]

Minister for the Displaced Talal Arslan stressed on Friday that the 1960 electoral law does not provide just representation for the Druze community while proportional representation does, the National News Agency reported. “The 1960 electoral law does not achieve justice for Druze lawmakers,” said Arslan […]

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said on Friday that Lebanon must develop a judicial system similar to the one in the United States after it refused to reinstate President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees. “I wish that the judicial system in Lebanon resembles […]

When filmmaker Barak Goodman sat down to start making the documentary “Oklahoma City” about the 1995 bombing that left 168 people dead, he said he remembered little of the story — except, as he told NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown, the shocking image of a building […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, fresh off patching up ties with China, reassured Japan’s leader Friday that the U.S. will defend its close ally. Together, the pronouncements illustrated a shift toward a more mainstream Trump stance on U.S. policy toward Asia. Welcoming Prime Minister Shinzo […]

They planned to visit the Statue of Liberty. Randy Olsen and Zaineb Al-Qazwini met in Singapore in 2011 and married. After a two-year application process, Al-Qazwini, an Iraqi citizen, was approved for a green card in December. Their first stop was to be New York, […]