Lebanon News

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim has pledged that “there will be leniency with terrorism or the Israeli enemy.” “I’m fully confident that you know the extent of our sacrifices in General Security, together with the rest of the security institutions, to safeguard our […]

The army on Sunday seized a truck loaded with foodstuffs that was headed for the jihadist groups in the outskirts of the Bekaa border town of Arsal, state-run National News Agency reported. “A truck loaded with foodstuffs and headed for the outskirts was stopped at […]

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Sunday called on some political parties not to “waste time,” stressing the need to pass a new electoral law containing the proportional representation system. “They wasted time and plunged Lebanon into a three-year vacuum but they eventually reached […]

MP Ibrahim Kanaan said on Sunday during a conference held by the Free Patriotic Movement on municipalities in Sin el Fil that in order for Taef Accord to be applied, one must first decree a new electoral law that preserves equity of representation and expanded […]

Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister, FPM chief, Gebran Bassil, called on Sunday for the adoption of policies that encourage refugees to return to their country, especially that several areas were safe today in Syria, adding that any Syrian who goes to Syria must lose his […]

Police in north Lebanon arrested a Syrian national suspected of having links to a terror group, the National News Agency reported on Saturday. The police patrol arrested, Sami Ahmed Salloum, a Syrian, in Akkar’s town of al-Ayoun for having ties to terror groups, NNA said. […]

The youth and students’ sector of the Kataeb Party and the National Liberal Party organized a demonstration on Saturday in front of the municipality of Beirut, protesting against extending the Parliament’s mandate. The protestors demanded that a new electoral law is set and adopted in […]

Prime Minister Saad Hariri received at the Central House on Saturday the head of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society, Hilal Al Sayer. Discussions focused on providing aid for refugees, particularly Syrians. The meeting was attended by State Minister for Affairs of the Displaced, Moein Merabi.

Prime Minister, Saad al-Hariri, met on Saturday evening at the “House of Center” with Prime Minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Nechirvan Barzani, and Deputy Prime Minister, Qubad Talabani, in the presence of the former Minister Jihad Azour and Hariri’s Bureau Director, Nader Hariri. Discussions during […]