BEIRUT: Cabinet Wednesday decided to allow quarries and rock crushers to resume work after the Interior Ministry ordered a freeze late last month, but failed...
BEIRUT: The political tectonic plates seem to be shifting away from the Free Patriotic Movement’s reviled qualification electoral law proposal and have...
BEIRUT: Politicians have a tendency to set themselves deadlines, only to miss them and move on as if nothing happened. First, Lebanese citizens were led to...
BEIRUT: Consensus over a new electoral law, a saga eight years in the making, now seems more elusive than ever. Even as parties are drawing ever closer to the...
BEIRUT: Thursday’s planned Cabinet session will not likely produce an electoral law nor yield any major political breakthrough. The session is expected...
BEIRUT: Truckers suspended their general strike Thursday following a meeting with Internal Security Forces chief Brig. Gen. Imad Othman. “Othman assured...
BEIRUT: As truck drivers escalated their protest Wednesday blocking main thoroughfares and causing crippling traffic that ground Lebanon to a near standstill,...
BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri Tuesday said he opposes extending Parliament’s term for another year, adding that any extension should be confined to the...
BEIRUT: Thousands of men, women and children of all ages flocked to Martyrs’ Square in Downtown Beirut Monday to commemorate 102 years since the...
BEIRUT: A day after Hezbollah conducted a provocative media tour in the south Lebanon, Prime Minister Saad Hariri inspected UNIFIL and Army facilities in the...
BEIRUT: In the latest chapter in the environmental saga gripping Lebanon in the wake of rampant unregulated quarries, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk...
BEIRUT: In an unprecedented move Wednesday, President Michel Aoun pulled the country back from the brink of a severe crisis by activating his prerogative to...
BEIRUT: Independent candidate Jad Tabet’s surprise election as head of Beirut’s Order of Engineers may have cast doubt over the durability of the...
BEIRUT: The Italian ambassador “confirmed” an Italian company previously qualified to bid for oil exploration licenses had no knowledge of claims...
BEIRUT/SIDON, Lebanon: Syrian refugees throughout Lebanon had mixed reactions Friday following an overnight U.S. missile strike that targeted a vital military...
BEIRUT: International donors made a “collective pledge of $6 billion for this year alone,” EU Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Christos Stylianide...
BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri Wednesday reiterated warnings of a parliamentary vacuum in the leadup to Thursday’s general parliamentary discussion, which MPs...
BEIRUT: In what appears an unprecedented move, Hezbollah units reportedly raided drug warehouses in Beirut's southern suburbs Friday without the...
SWEIMEH, Jordan/BEIRUT: Bearing a message of peace to the Arab Summit, President Michel Aoun Wednesday called for cooperation and reconciliation across the...
BEIRUT: Israel’s saber-rattling in recent weeks has prompted speculation that a new war between the Jewish state and Lebanon is imminent, yet analysts...
BEIRUT: Lebanon has a few weeks to adopt a new electoral law or it would be committing political suicide, Speaker Nabih Berri said Wednesday, following a...
BEIRUT: Kassem Tajeddine’s family Wednesday responded to allegations that the prominent Lebanese businessman was financing terrorism, after reports that...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Wednesday that Lebanon would present a united front during next week’s Arab Summit, dismissing concerns of rifts...
BEIRUT: Moroccan authorities intend to extradite Lebanese national Kassem Tajeddine to the United States, an unnamed security source close to the case told...
BEIRUT: “Read Nael: The Story of a Village in the History of a Nation” is the latest book by onetime Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh. It...