Lebanon News

BEIRUT — Every Sunday, the gymnasium along Beirut’s airport highway echoes with the shouting and laughter of dozens of Syrian children enjoying a rare escape from a grim and confined life in exile. The Sport 4 Development program, run by the U.N. children’s agency, aims to […]

President Michel Aoun received on Thursday at the Baabda Palace a delegation of the Lebanese Banks Association headed by Joseph Tarabay. Talks reportedly featured high over the state’s budget and the country’s banking sector.   Aoun also received head of the Constitutional Council Dr. Issam […]

A Conversation with the President of the Lebanese American Council for Democracy, Dr. Joseph Khalil  Dr. Khalil was born in Lebanon, in 1974. As a child and young adult, he was an active member of the Scouts du Liban and the Lebanese Red Cross; both […]

President Michel Aoun might call for a national dialogue among the leaders of the political parties in Baabda or he might agree with Prime Minister Saad Hariri on holding consecutive cabinet sessions, with the aim of reaching consensus over a new electoral law before the […]

12-member Israeli force crossed the electronic fence overnight in the outskirts of the southern border town of Mays al-Jabal in the Kroum al-Sharqi area, media reports said Wednesday. Troops planted spy devices consisted of a camera and a transmission instrument that are both solar powered, […]

The Free Patriotic Movement has accused its partner in the presidential settlement, al-Mustaqbal Movement, of wasting time in the electoral law deliberations in order to postpone the parliamentary elections, a media report said on Wednesday. “Mustaqbal does not want an agreement on a new law. […]

U.S. Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited the northeastern border town of Arsal on Wednesday

The Members of the International Support Group (ISG) reaffirmed Wednesday “their commitment to the stability and security of Lebanon,” an ISG joint statement said. “The current political momentum has re-activated Lebanon’s institutions of state,” the statement noted. The ISG Members “encourage all parties to arrive […]

Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rahi on Wednesday received in Bkerki Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the US Senate, Robert Corker, accompanied by US Ambassador, Elizabeth Richard.