BEIRUT: In June 2015, Samir Geagea met with Michel Aoun at the latter’s residence in an attempt to unite the Christian community, members of which had...
BEIRUT: A former U.S. ambassador to Lebanon will be appointed to the No. 3 post at the Department of State, a source familiar with the process told The Daily...
BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Joumblatt has been granted his wish to name all the ministers allocated to the Druze sect, eliminating a...
BEIRUT: The conflict between Lebanon’s two major Christian parties developed Tuesday as the Lebanese Forces asked its officials not to respond to...
BEIRUT: Three of the country’s top officials who would need to approve any new Cabinet are abroad on vacation, and the obstacles that are preventing the...
BEIRUT: The United States has pushed back a military agreement between Beirut and Moscow in recent months, but the forthcoming Lebanese government may try to...
BEIRUT: The Lebanese Football Association will inform FIFA of government inference if the Youth and Sports Ministry does not abandon its calls for...
BEIRUT: The U.N. refugee agency Thursday denied it was encouraging the return of Syrian refugees, a day after the Foreign Ministry said it had received a...
BEIRUT: Preparations are underway for a wide-scale security operation in the Baalbeck-Hermel province, to be launched “within hours or days,” a Lebanese Army...
BEIRUT: A Hezbollah minister has called on Lebanon’s football body to hold responsible those who gave Lebanon’s vote to the joint bid of the...
BEIRUT: The U.N.’s refugee agency will begin encouraging the return of Syrian refugees to their homeland “without promoting” it, a Foreign...
BEIRUT: Last weekend’s World Cup upsets turned social media into a lighthearted battleground for Lebanon’s football fans, whose loyalties are...
BEIRUT: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to land in Beirut Thursday for a visit that is part of a new policy to play a bigger role in the Middle...
BEIRUT: A tweet from former MP Walid Joumblatt Friday sparked an open-ended confrontation between the Progressive Socialist Party and President Michel...
BEIRUT: The weeklong standoff between some Lebanese officials and the international community appeared to have been eased Thursday as both sides met –...
BEIRUT: Lebanon did not qualify for this year’s World Cup in Russia, but that doesn’t mean the country and its political leaders aren’t...
BEIRUT: The international community jumped to the defense of the United Nations refugee agency Monday in what was seen as a response to caretaker Foreign...
BEIRUT: An adviser to Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri Friday criticized a decision by caretaker Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil to halt the renewal of...
BEIRUT: Lebanon Tuesday gave the UNHCR a fortnight to respond to a request to develop a strategy to facilitate the return of Syrian refugees to safe zones in...
BEIRUT: The controversial naturalization decree recently signed by President Michel Aoun that would grant Lebanese citizenship to over 300 people is being...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s top officials Monday discussed a response to an Israeli proposal to solve a land dispute between the two states, with Beirut saying it...
BEIRUT: Two political parties announced Friday they would challenge a new naturalization decree granting 375 people Lebanese citizenship, as the justice...
BEIRUT: President Michel Aoun has signed a controversial decree granting citizenship to some 350 people, multiple sources confirmed to The Daily Star...
BEIRUT: Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai called Wednesday for contact between Lebanese and Syrian authorities over the return of Syrian refugees to their home...