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The Independent
| 1 year ago
A lot can happen in the space of twelve months, just ask Lung...Suggested Topics Local leaders in northern Lebanon yesterday threatened to establish a "Free Lebanese Army" after soldiers shot dead two prominent Sunni clerics, an incident that will...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
A gunbattle has erupted in Beirut as fears mounted that the conflict in neighboring Syria is bleeding across the border. Lebanon's National News Agency says six people were wounded in the clashes that erupted late Sunday and continued early Monday.
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Daily Star Many Arab tourists are cancelling reservations at Beirut hotels after Gulf states issued travel warnings. North Lebanon's volatile security conditions could threaten the country's peak tourist season as hotels started to report...
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Open Democracy
| 1 year ago
At the time of writing the fighting has abated, with the army presiding over a fragile peace, but some fear these hostilities are a sign of Lebanon's infection by the violence in neighbouring Syria and consequent descent into conflict. When I went...
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Canadian Free Press
| 1 year ago
This violent escalation came as a surprise, in light of the widespread assumption that Lebanon had so far been immune to the "Arab Spring."...To many observers, this violent escalation came as a surprise, in light of the widespread assumption that...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Army troops shot dead a Sunni cleric on Sunday when his convoy failed to stop at a checkpoint in North Lebanon, the scene of deadly clashes linked to the uprising in Syria, a security official said. He told AFP that another religious figure in the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Arab Tawhid Party leader Wiam Wahhab said on Sunday that Lebanon was being ruled by a bunch of cowards. [We are losing our grip on our country], and we have a bunch of cowards who are ruling the country and [acting like spectators], Wahhab told NBN...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Hundreds of people put on their running shoes Sunday to take part in the Tripoli International Half Marathon amid tightened security following recent deadly clashes in the northern coastal city. Former Tripoli MP Misbah Ahdab, the vice president of...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said in remarks published Sunday his calls for national dialogue encompasses other topics but that the Tripoli situation is a priority, adding that Lebanon would lose out greatly if calls for talks are shunned. I did...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Speaker Nabih Berri said in remarks published on Sunday that he did not think former Premier Saad Hariri responded negatively to his call for resuming national dialogue in light of the events in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. [I did not see]...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said on Saturday evening that at a time when the situation in Syria was improving, Lebanon's was deteriorating. The situation in Syria is heading toward the better, while in Lebanon it is becoming worse, Charbel told...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
A Syrian was shot dead and two others wounded as they tried to cross the border from Lebanon back into their country Saturday, security and medical sources said. The three men had left the northern Lebanese village of Mukaibleh and were trying to...
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Zaman.com
| 1 year ago
As the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli became the scene of armed skirmishes between Sunni and Alawite communities in past days, concerns rose among experts and officials that sectarian strife may be further complicating the situation in the...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates urged their citizens to stay away from Lebanon, citing security concerns in a country where fighting prompted by sectarian tensions in neighbouring Syria has unsettled areas near a northern port. The three...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
State television said the attack was the latest evidence that Syria is facing a foreign-sponsored Sunni Islamist conspiracy rather than a broad popular uprising against its president Bashar al-Assad...An activist said one man had been killed when the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Vandals on Saturday burned a parking lot and a furniture shop in the northern city of Tripoli, local media outlets reported. A parking lot [near] Al-Nasari Mosque in Bab al-Tebbaneh was burned [by vandals], the National News Agency reported, adding...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
VOA News May 19, 2012 Two Gulf Arab states are telling their citizens to leave Lebanon. Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on Saturday called for their citizens in Lebanon to return home and for any citizens thinking about visiting Lebanon not to go. ...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
A gathering of state and security officials at the residence of Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Tripoli Saturday called for boosting security measures in the northern coastal city as a shaky truce held after days of clashes last week led to the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Prime Minister Najib Mikati held on Saturday a meeting in his Tripoli residence to discuss the situation in the violence-stricken northern Lebanese city, the National News Agency reported. The participants discussed the situation in Tripoli amid the...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
The Gulf states of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have called on their citizens not to go to Lebanon and for those who are there to leave. Saturday's call by the two countries' foreign ministries came days after clashes between pro- and anti-...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The United Arab Emirates on Saturday urged its citizens to avoid travel to Lebanon, where clashes linked to the conflict in neighboring Syria have left 10 people dead, state news agency WAM reported. "The UAE foreign ministry has urged citizens not...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Deputy Speaker Farid Makari commented Saturday on Speaker Nabih Berri's call for national dialogue to discuss Tripoli's situation, saying that resolving the events in the North Lebanon city requires the Syrian regime and Hezbollah to stop interfering...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
March 14 General Secretariat Coordinator Fares Soueid blamed the Baath regime in Damascus for the events that have destabilized the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. During an interview with the Kuwaiti newspaper As-Seyassah , Soueid said that what...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Future bloc MP Ahmad Fatfat said on Friday that Syria's letter to UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon contained a dangerous accusation. What the letter mentions [is] a serious accusation against the Lebanese government, and the Syrian leadership might be...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Daily Star A preacher addresses the crowd assembled at Nour Square in Tripoli. A shaky truce held for the fourth day in Tripoli Friday as signs emerged that Islamist Shadi Mawlawi, whose arrest ignited the deadly clashes in the northern city,...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Lebanese army troops deploy in Bab al-Tabbaneh, one of two rival neighbourhoods in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, to order battling gunmen off the streets. Photograph: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images The ongoing fighting in the northern city of...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Jean Kahwagi urged the country's political leaders to prevail upon gunmen to withdraw from the streets of Tripoli Friday, a week after deadly fighting in the northern city left 11 people killed. An important task must be performed by politicians,...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi rejected Thursday calls for the return of the Syrian army to Lebanon to restore calm in Tripoli, saying the Lebanese Army alone can protect the Lebanese people...The Lebanese Army alone can protect Lebanon and its...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Daily Star A gunman hides behind sandbags as bullets are fired in his direction during clashes in Bab al-Tabbaneh, Tripoli. A judicial decision over the fate of an Islamist detainee is set to test a fragile three-day truce in Tripoli Friday, as...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly met with Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun Thursday to discuss domestic and regional developments. The two last met on Jan. 16. [Connelly] renewed the commitment of the United States to a stable,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Ghadanfar Roken Abadi said on Thursday that Tehran will soon start supplying Lebanon with electricity through a power grid that passes through Iraq and Syria. A week ago, I announced that after nearly 10 days [Iran] will...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Considered by some Muslims a heretic sect, this small Levantine minority have survived persecution and the Crusades to rise to the top and take over the Syrian establishment. Alawite practices, which are said to include celebrating Christmas and the...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Abbas Ibrahim said Thursday that Syria will hand over the suspects involved in the kidnapping of seven Estonians held captive for over four months in Lebanon. During a meeting with President Michel Sleiman, Ibrahim said he will receive several men...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
Breaking News North Lebanon fighting kills 1; ninth in five days A civilian died in fighting in Lebanon's port city of Tripoli on Wednesday night, security sources said, bringing the death toll to nine in five days of clashes in a city where...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
March 14 MP Marwan Hamadeh retorted on Thursday to remarks made by Arab Democratic Party Secretary General Rifaat Eid, saying that the latter had inadvertently revealed the conspiracy against the political class in Lebanon. Eid, yesterday, revealed,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
A US diplomatic source told NOW Lebanon on Thursday that the United States had no role in the operations to arrest individuals in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli. According to Al-Jadeed television station, Lebanon's General Security would not have...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Kataeb bloc MP Fadi al-Haber said in remarks published Thursday that the events in the violence-stricken city of Tripoli erupted due to the oppression targeting Sunni movements whether on the Palestinian territories or in Syria and Lebanon. The...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Future Movement official Mustafa Allouch on Wednesday criticized remarks made by Arab Democratic Party Secretary General Rifaat Eid, saying that the Syrian regime is incapable of playing any role on the regional level due to the ongoing Syrian crisis.
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Khaleej Times
| 1 year ago
Syrian forces were accused on Wednesday of having executed 15 civilians, as the office of envoy Kofi Annan said members of a UN observer team were evacuated a day after a bomb blast hit their convoy. After regime forces raided the neighbourhood of...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Zubeida Mnayar and her three small daughters struggle to clean up the debris of cement and glass that accumulated inside their first floor apartment of a building in the restive Tripoli neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh. I don't know where to start and...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Al-Jadded television station reported on Wednesday that the Free Syrian Army released two individuals who had been detained following clashes along the Syrian-Lebanese border. Lebanese citizens Abdullah Al-Zein and Khodr Jaafar were released after...
