Kataeb party chief, Sami Gemayel, said after meeting with Prime Minister-designate, Saad Hariri, that the general atmosphere in Lebanon was positive.
Gemayel: Positive general atmosphere
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Kaag pushes for electing president
NNA – UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Sigrid Kaag, underscored the importance of the presidential statement issued by the Security Council on July 22, 2016 that stressed the necessity to elect a president for Lebanon, form a national unity government and hold the parliamentary elections […]
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Tal Afar, West of Mosul, Becomes Center of Battle for Influence in Iraq
ERBIL, Iraq — The city of Tal Afar, a former Ottoman outpost not far from Mosul that has a mostly ethnic Turkmen population and has been home to a corps of Islamic State leaders, on Saturday became the focus of a growing struggle between Turkey […]
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Bou Assi: Hariri has not declared acceptance of relativity law, we are attached to Bassil’s mixed formula
NNA – Social Affairs Minister, Pierre Bou Assi, indicated, on Saturday, that “PM Saad Hariri has not declared his acceptance of the relativity electoral law but merely expressed that he has no objection to it, meaning that it is not his first choice.” “We are […]