Middle East Conflict & Tragedy News

Iran says nuclear non proliferation treaty irrelevant and continues to make it so! Defiant Iran lashes out at IAEA they are threatening now to build 10 more plants to enrich uranium. That is a childish threat and I hope toothless...

As-Safir newspaper reported on Thursday that Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun and Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir’s Wednesday meeting was held following Aoun’s request two months earlier. The sit-down, reportedly planned by Change and Reform bloc MPs Ibrahim...

President Michel Sleiman said that he does not oppose adopting the concept of one electoral district throughout Lebanon in an interview with Ad-Diyar newspaper, but, he added, on condition there is an equal distribution of power between Christians and Muslims....

The Loyalty to the Resistance bloc said in a statement issued after its weekly meeting on Wednesday that it was surprised by the ruckus caused by Nabih Berri’s suggestion to “fully implement the Taif Accord” and form a national committee...

Following his meeting with Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Prosecutor General Daniel Bellemare on Thursday, Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar said that the two men discussed the tribunal’s work. He added that the prosecutor’s visit reinforced the previously agreed-upon legal measures...

Lebanese Forces bloc MP Antoine Zahra told New TV on Wednesday that it is ridiculous to think Hezbollah is not a militia, adding that its new political platform indicates that Lebanon is not heading toward state-building, although he did not...

Following its weekly meeting on Wednesday, the March 14 General Secretariat issued a statement criticizing Hezbollah’s political platform announced on Monday— which calls for eliminating political sectarianism and a national defense strategy of the Resistance defending Lebanon alongside...