MP-elect Henri Chedid confirmed Thursday that he was set to become a member of the Future Movement bloc, after confusion over which political bloc he planned to join.
The Electoral Supervisory Committee Monday urged parliamentary candidates to submit reports accounting for their monthly campaign contributions and expenditures, in accordance with the new electoral law.
The Future Movement called Saturday for the dissolution of the party’s electoral supervisory bodies, in a statement from the Secretariat-General.
Representatives of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia congratulated Friday Speaker Nabih Berri.
Lebanon’s elections on May 6 set tongues wagging when people learned Eddy Demerjian had won a seat in Zahle with just 77 votes.
Egyptian Ambassador Nazih al-Najjari Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Saad Hariri on the result of recent parliamentary elections, calling Hariri a...
The release of the breakdown of preferential votes gained by each winning candidate in Sunday’s parliamentary elections by the Interior Ministry has exposed...
the Ambassador of Qatar congratulated Prime Minister Saad Hariri Wednesday on his electoral performance during a visit to his Downtown residence in Beirut.
Beirut Governor Ziad Chebib shuttered popular Beirut nightclub The Garten Saturday after a video circulating on social media purported to show recordings of...
Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Saturday evening that Saudi Arabia was a force that brought the people of Lebanon together, and that the kingdom wants the...
China's air force has landed bombers on islands and reefs in the South China Sea as part of a training exercise in the disputed region, it said in a statement.
Myanmar security forces have resumed loudspeaker broadcasts near its border with Bangladesh ordering Rohingya Muslims to immediately leave a strip of no-man's...
Syrian troops fought on Sunday to crush the last pockets of resistance by Daesh (ISIS) militants trapped in an enclave south of Damascus, state media said,...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi met with Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday, less than 24 hours after the Shi'ite cleric's bloc was declared winner of Iraq's...
Numbers released by the Interior Ministry after the recent parliamentary elections show a vast discrepancy between those MPs that were carried to parliament...
Following the official announcement of winning candidates from Sunday’s parliamentary elections, the Interior Ministry has released a breakdown of the number...
Prime Minister Saad Hariri Wednesday congratulated the six women to win seats in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections over the weekend, despite the lower than...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Wednesday expressed support for the elections held in Lebanon over the weekend, urging political leaders to...
Declaring that Lebanon has entered a new political phase following Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
Though the results of Sunday’s legislative polls did not bring any major surprises regarding the gains or losses of political parties, the unexpected...
Parliamentary elections are now finished and the final winners and some losers have been announced, but now the majority of main political powers are calling...
Druze political, official and religious figures Tuesday evening called for restraint and calm after armed clashes between supporters of the Progressive...
As political rhetoric in the country eases after a bruising election campaign, it appears that the relationship between the Progressive Socialist Party and...
Election officials completed a vote recount in north Lebanon’s Akkar Tuesday morning after official results from the district were delayed to allow a...
The U.S. Embassy in Beirut Monday congratulated the Lebanese people for voting in the first parliamentary elections in nine years.
A senior Iranian government adviser Tuesday praised Hezbollah’s performance in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, after preliminary results indicated that the...
Justice Minister Salim Jreissati Tuesday thanked judges across Lebanon for their help in overseeing the election.
Six female lawmakers are set to join the newly formed Parliament, a two-seat increase from the four seats won by women in the 2009 elections.
Lebanon’s new Parliament will include six female lawmakers across the country, up from just four in the 2009-era Parliament, with several fresh faces.
The EU Election Observation Mission emphasized the need for further measures to support women’s inclusion in Lebanese politics and greater supervision of the...
The United States Embassy in Beirut Monday congratulated Lebanon for holding its first parliamentary elections in nine years.
President Michel Aoun was set to address the nation Tuesday evening, in his first official speech following the general elections held over the weekend.
Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil and Lebanese Democratic Party head Talal Arslan announced they had recommitted to a political alliance in the...
Lebanon’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian denounced Tuesday a series of street clashes that spread across Beirut the previous day in the wake of the...
Election officials completed a vote recount in north Lebanon’s Akkar Tuesday morning, after official results from the district had been delayed to allow a...