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Riachy from Majdelioun: Maarab accord eternal

4 April 2017

Riachy from Majdelioun: Maarab accord eternal Minister of Information, Melhem Riachy, maintained on Monday that the reconciliation inked at Maarab between the Lebanese Forces and Free Patriotic Movement was “eternal” and that “we need to immunize it.” “There is no return backwards; the past page […]

PM Hariri: Lebanon at ‘breaking point’ due to refugees

4 April 2017

1 April 2017 at 14:15 Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has warned that his country is close to “breaking point” due to strains of hosting more than one million Syrian refugees, fearing that unrest could escalate from tensions between refugees and local communities. Speaking […]

Lebanese PM urges world help to cope with refugee influx

2 April 2017

BEIRUT: Lebanon will present a comprehensive plan to help alleviate the enormous burden of Syrian refugees at an upcoming Syria conference in Brussels, but needs urgent international support to avoid collapse, Lebanon’s prime minister said Friday. Speaking to a group of journalists ahead of the April […]

Dismayed by Presidents Letter to Arab Summit, Hizbullah Compares it to ‘July War Awkar Meeting’

2 April 2017

Hizbullah party expressed dismay at a letter sent by five Lebanese Presidents and Prime Ministers to the Arab summit in Jordan, ahead of President Michel Aoun’s travel to take part in the summit, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday. The party likened the letter “to a […]

Hizbullah Delegation to Baabda in Regards to Aoun’s Arab Summit Position

2 April 2017

Hizbullah party is set to dispatch a delegation to the Presidential Palace to convey the party’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s “appreciation” for President Michel Aoun’s stance at the Arab summit in Jordan, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday. After Aoun’s return from Jordan, the President has […]

Europe at the heart of Success

1 April 2017

Friday the 31st of March was the commencement of the European conference of the Lebanese Diaspora of the Tayyar movement that is being held in Gerona, Spain. All the European offices of the Assembly for Lebanon as well as a delegation headed by Minister Nicolas […]

3 suspected Daesh militants killed, 3 wounded in Arsal bombing

30 March 2017

Lebanon: Three suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants were killed and three others wounded in a bombing when a pickup truck they were in exploded in a northeast Lebanon border town on Thursday, a security source told The Daily Star. The incident took place in Arsal’s Jameh […]

Arab Summit Backs Right of Lebanese to ‘Resist’ Any Israeli Attack, Urges Support for Army

30 March 2017

The Arab League on Wednesday backed the right of the Lebanese to “resist” any Israeli attack and called on all countries in the world to offer support to the Lebanese army. The Arab Summit “welcomes the election of General Michel Aoun as president of the […]

Bassil: No Turning Back in LF Ties, Hizbullah Wants to Revise, Not Bin Electoral Law Proposal

30 March 2017

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil stressed Wednesday that “there will be no turning back in the relation with the Lebanese Forces,” as he noted that Hizbullah wants to amend and not shelve his latest electoral law proposal. “There will be no turning back in […]

Aoun, Hariri reach Amman

29 March 2017

NNA field reporter on Tuesday said that Lebanese President Michel Aoun and PM Saad Hariri have reached Amman to participate in the Arab summit. Jordanian King Abdullah Al Thani received President Aoun and welcomed him as head of the Lebanese delegation to the summit.

Initial Approval of Budget Is Important for Stability of Financial System Of State Bassil: This Approval Must Take Its Constitutional, Necessary Legal Path

28 March 2017

Head of the Change and Reform block, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, held a special meeting Tuesday morning, March 28, 2017. In a live address he gave at the end of the reunion, Bassil apologized to the press for starting early in the morning, stressing that […]

Which American offer did Bassil reject?

28 March 2017

After the arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States of America, in what represents a blatant and obvious “right move”, other countries and powers in the world started reanalyzing their positions, either in how they may adjust to the new American […]