BEIRUT: The Cabinet inches ever closer to formation, although obstacles remain most of its makeup has been determined, political sources told The Daily Star...
ROUMIEH, Lebanon: Eighteen-year-old Z. has been incarcerated for the past two and a half years, serving time for murder. “When I am out, I just want to...
BEIRUT: Last-minute jostling over key “service” ministries and horse-trading over cross-sect ministers held up the formation of a national accord...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah has lost around 40 fighters in fierce battles in and around Aleppo this month, bringing the death toll of the Lebanese group to 1,590 since...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s new Cabinet will be formed “very soon” if all political parties cooperate, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said...
BEIRUT: Lebanese sentiment toward Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton veered between schadenfreude and indifference, with many admitting that...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri will begin Friday consultations for a “national accord government,” with hope emerging it could see...
-April 1970: Born in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. - 1992: Graduated from Georgetown University in the United States, began managing part of his father Prime...
BEIRUT: A Hezbollah minister said Sunday the party would facilitate the formation of a new Cabinet after Monday’s presidential election, as FPM supporters...
BEIRUT: The election of a president Monday signals the end of the March 8 and March 14 coalitions as the cards will be reshuffled and new bilateral alliances...
BEIRUT: A Saudi envoy landed in Beirut Thursday and immediately began wide-ranging high-level consultations seen as a tacit approval of next week’s...
BEIRUT: Sukleen employees ended a three-day strike Sunday, resuming waste collection around Beirut and Mount Lebanon after reaching an agreement with the...
ARSAL, Lebanon: A 10-ton armor-plated Humvee pulled to a lumbering stop at an Army position on top of a dusty hill where soldiers surveyed the town below and...
BEIRUT: Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Thursday ended a decade-old rivalry and endorsed MP Michel Aoun for the presidency, hoping his move would protect...
BEIRUT: The Army announced a suspected Daesh (ISIS) “emir” had confessed Tuesday to plotting attacks targeting popular tourist locations, economic...
BEIRUT: K. barely uttered a grunt as his coach injected the needle into the back of his left thigh, the third time this week he was injected with a potent...
BEIRUT: Ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri took his initiative to end the presidential stalemate to Paris Thursday, discussing the crisis with French Foreign...
BEIRUT: Ziad Rahbani’s play “Film Ameriki Tawil” was first staged 35 years ago. It might have premiered today. The work’s depiction of the inmates of an...
NACCACHE, Lebanon: In his first interview since being charged in an internet scandal, MTV CEO Michel El Murr Monday issued a scathing attack on Ogero and the...
BOUDAI, Lebanon: Ali Nasser Shamas is a busy man. As one of Lebanon’s biggest cannabis farmers, he takes pride in his product and insists that it is the only...
BEIRUT: After nearly a month of paralysis, Cabinet met Thursday and issued essential official appointments as the Future Movement rejected the ongoing...
BEIRUT: Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas rejected claims that a rape took place at an orphanage in Beirut, after an activist went on a hunger strike to...
BEIRUT: Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas and UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Kr?henbühl announced Wednesday that international donors will be...
BEIRUT: Palestinians staged a protest Monday against the U.N.’s refugee agency for Palestinians, which they blamed for the death of a 5-year-old girl...
BEIRUT: Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri clashed with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai over his suggestion of a package deal Monday, further exacerbating the...