Lebanon News

NNA – Army Commander, General Joseph Aoun, received on Tuesday at his Yarzeh office MP Riad Rahhal and former minister Marwan Charbel, with talks reportedly touching on the general situation. General Aoun also met with a delegation of the Customs’ Directorate led by Customs’ Director […]

Army appoints Brigadier Antoine Mansour as director of intelligence

NNA – Lebanese Army Command’s guidance directorate on Tuesday issued a statement saying that the command appointed, upon the approval of national defense minister, Brigadier Antoine Sleiman Mansour as director for army intelligence. Brigadier Mansour was born in 1962. He is from Hosh village in […]

Health Minister, Information Minister visit Rabieh, confirm solidarity with FPM

NNA – Vice Prime Minister, Health Minister, Ghassan Hasbani, and Information Minister, Melhem Riachy, visited Rabieh on Tuesday, delegated by Lebanese Forces Leader, Samir Geagea. The pair took part in the Change and Reform Parliamentary bloc’s weekly meeting, and met with bloc leader, Gebran Bassil, […]

Bassil after Change and Reform meeting: We will face parliament extension by all means

NNA – Free Patriotic Movement leader, Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister, Gebran Bassil, confirmed on Tuesday his political party’s utter refusal of any scenario leading to the extension of the House of Parliament’s mandate, pledging to face such possibility by all the available means. “A […]

The Law of Freedom by Gebran Bassil

(The leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, Minister Gebran Bassil expressed his thoughts and concerns about his beloved country and the struggle (of the new era led by President Aoun) to revive it after years of corruption. In an article published in the daily “Al-Nahar” […]

Report: Army Says Won’t Permit Ain el-Hilweh Clashes Expand into Sidon

As clashes at the southern Palestinian Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon aggravate, the Lebanese army assured that it won’t allow the tension to spill over into Sidon and neighboring areas, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday. “The army’s decision is clear and firm. It will […]

Cabinet forms ministerial committee to draft new electoral law proposal

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Cabinet formed Monday a ministerial committee tasked with the formulation of a new parliamentary electoral system proposal in the hope of breaking a months-long political deadlock that threatens to plunge the country into a constitutional vacuum. The committee, which will be headed by […]

Hariri Meets U.S. Congressman of Lebanese Origin Issa

Prime Minister Saad Hariri held talks Monday at the Grand Serail with the U.S. congressman of Lebanese origin Darrell Issa, the PM’s office said. Issa is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and of its Foreign Affairs Committee. He was accompanied by a […]

Video: Minister Gebran Calls for a Parliament of Proportional Representation

Watch ( the video above). The head of the Free Patriotic Movement leader, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Gebran Bassil held a press conference on Monday following the FPM Political bureau meeting. This is a brief of Bassil’s statement: (for the press conference, watch the […]

President Aoun: No Vaccum at Parliment; Cabinet Forms Committee to prepare Electoral Law

The Cabinet met at 11:00 am. this Monday at Baabda Palace where a committee, led by PM Hariri to discuss the electoral law, was formed. The session was preceded by a meeting between President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Hariri during which they discussed the […]

Lebanon Registered Ship Hijacked Off Somalia Freed

A Lebanese registered ship hijacked off the coast of war-torn Somalia has been freed, says a shipping expert. The pirates who boarded the ship Saturday abandoned it Sunday before naval forces rescued the ship, Mohamed Abdirahman, former director of Puntland’s marine forces, told The Associated […]

Christian Parties to Boycott Any Session Aimed at Extending Parliament Term