BEIRUT: As registration for the elections closed just days before International Women’s Day, Lebanon had the largest number of women register as...
BEIRUT: In the wake of a series of reported rapes in north Lebanon’s Tripoli, some involving minors, the judiciary has taken an active roll in pursuing...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri received a lavish welcome traditionally given to heads of state on his arrival at the Yamama Palace in Riyadh Wednesday to...
BEIRUT: In the 2009 parliamentary elections, the Free Patriotic Movement won the eight seats in Kesrouan and Jbeil under the old winner-takes-all electoral...
BEIRUT: A high-ranking official in Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s government said Tuesday that he had doubts Lebanon’s 2018 budget could be passed by the...
BEIRUT: The 2018 budget was the focus of a ministerial meeting Monday, days after Prime Minister Saad Hariri vowed to work on passing reforms ahead of...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s only functioning international airport saw an 8.23 percent increase in air passengers in 2017 and is expected to welcome 10 million...
BEIRUT: Israel wants a solution to the maritime border dispute with Lebanon in order to not scare away potential oil companies from its own waters, a Lebanese...
BEIRUT: The relationship between the Vatican and Lebanon took a hit after Beirut’s appointee for ambassador to the Holy See was rejected, a source close to...
BEIRUT: The Shiite duo of the Amal Movement and Hezbollah separately announced their candidates Monday for the upcoming parliamentary elections. The head of...
BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt will not run in the upcoming parliamentary elections for the first time since 1992 as he passes...
BEIRUT: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Thursday presented new ideas for a solution to the border dispute between Lebanon and Israel after a previous...
BEIRUT: State-owned internet company Ogero awarded a massive $283 million fiber-optic project to three companies Tuesday. SERTA Channels-Huawei, BMB-Calix and...
BEIRUT: Analysts are divided over the potential for U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s upcoming visit to Beirut to reap concrete results for...
BEIRUT: The downing of an Israeli F-16 over the weekend was commended by Hezbollah, with a source in the party telling The Daily Star Sunday that the incident...
BEIRUT: A Public Works and Transport Ministry project to establish an international port in south Lebanon’s Naqoura has been billed as an act of resistance...
BEIRUT/NAQOURA, Lebanon: Acting U.S. Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs David Satterfield visited southern Lebanon Thursday before presenting...
BEIRUT: Ogero chief Imad Kreidieh Wednesday confirmed that a major submarine cable system connecting Lebanon’s internet to the outside world was...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Higher Defense Council Wednesday issued instructions for the country’s security forces to confront any Israeli aggression on...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri touched on bilateral relations as well as local and regional developments with U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary for Near...
BEIRUT: Unnamed candidates from Beirut and north Lebanon became the first to register their candidacy for the upcoming parliamentary elections set for May 6,...
BEIRUT: While the rift between two of the country’s biggest political parties, the Free Patriotic Movement and the Amal Movement, deepens, analysts say...
BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri’s Amal Movement has rejected any responsibility for the protest that took place late Wednesday night in Hadath....
BEIRUT: Even if President Michel Aoun’s image as the “Father of All” has been tainted by his son-in-law calling the speaker of Parliament a...
BEIRUT: The spat between President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri, which also led to another war of words between the two leader’s top aides – Foreign...