Lebanon News

President Michel Aoun on Tuesday noted that an electoral law based on proportional representation would “achieve justice” among the country’s citizens. During a meeting in Baabda with a Druze delegation led by ex-MP Faisal al-Daoud, Aoun said “his insistence on approving a new electoral law […]

An Israeli enemy gunboat opened fire last night from 21.20 to 21.28 from inside the occupied Palestinian regional waters, with some bullets violating the Lebanese regional waters, a Lebanese Army communiqué said on Tuesday. The breach is being followed-up in coordination with the United Nations […]

Prime Minister Saad Hariri stressed on Tuesday at the Oil and Gas Forum that the government plans to successfully transform Lebanon’s natural resources wealth into sustained economic growth. “The oil and gas sector is one of the most important files on Lebanon’s economic agenda. My […]

Information Minister Melhem Riachy met on Tuesday at his ministerial office with President of the International Association to Save Tyre, UNESCO Ambassador of Goodwill Maha Khalil Shalabi, whereby they discussed the “Phoenician Road” Project, notably the “Phoenician Expedition across the Atlantic” aboard a replica of […]

Defense Minister, Yaacoub Sarraf inspected on Tuesday before noon the southern border. The minister visited south of the Litani sector where he was briefed on the tasks of the army in the south, then he went to the UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura and met with […]

The Information Office of the State Minister for the Fight against Corruption, Nicola Tueni, said in a statement , “that during the episode of “Kalam-El-Nas” presented by Mr. Marcel Ghanem on March 2, 2017 and broadcast on LBC, Ghanem stated that the State Minister Tueni […]

On February 22nd, a US delegation of officials, headed by Senator Robert Corker, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, conducted a series of meetings with President Aoun and other senior officials during a visit to Lebanon. Subsequently, President Aoun and Senator Corker expressed […]

The Army Command – Orientation Directorate – issued on Thursday the following statement: “At 9:55, two Israeli enemy warplanes violated the Lebanese airspace over the town of Naqoura, and circled above the various regions of Lebanon, then left the atmosphere at 11:40 from above the […]

Syrian warplanes on Thursday waged several raids on posts for the jihadist group Fateh al-Sham Front — al-Qaida’s former Syrian branch – near the Lebanese-Syrian border, media reports said. A security source told LBCI television that the strikes targeted Syria’s western Qalamoun region near the […]