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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
The Future bloc on Tuesday called on Prime Minister Najib Mikati to immediately resign. The Future bloc requests Mikati resign immediately and calls on the [Lebanese] citizens to adhere to the state and the military institutions to restore calm in...
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Al Jazeera
| 12 months ago
08 Shadi al-Moulawi, left, was welcomed by friends and relatives following his release on Tuesday in Tripoli [AFP] A court in Lebanon has released on bail an activist allied with the Syrian opposition whose arrest earlier this month set off violent...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Lebanon anti-Syrian Sunni cleric released on bail The Lebanese army has been patrolling quarters of Tripoli after violent clashes there A Sunni cleric whose arrest sparked deadly clashes in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli has been freed on bail.
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
The Daily Star Prime Minister Najib Mikati at a reception held in his honor by the Lebanese community in Brussels. Prime Minister Najib Mikati dismissed Tuesday calls for his resignation, pledging to remain in office to prevent what he described as...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
VOA News May 22, 2012 A Syrian rights group says a bomb has exploded in Damascus, killing five people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday the blast targeted the neighborhood of Qaboun, which has been the center of...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 12 months ago
UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned that the search for peace in Syria was at a "pivotal moment" and expressed strong concerns of an all-out civil war, as a five-week-old truce was broken yet again. A bomb rocked the Damascus neighbourhood of Qaboon during...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Schools and colleges in Akkar, north Lebanon, were closed Tuesday after residents continued for a second day their blocking of roads across the region and the highway leading to Tripoli with trash, obstacles and burning tires. Internal Security...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said in remarks published Tuesday that Lebanon will hold fast to its policy of dissociation regarding events in Syria no matter the pressure, adding that security breaches in the country require an immediate resumption...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Monday she was "deeply concerned" by violence in Lebanon involving pro- and anti-Syrian groups that has sparked concerns of wider conflict. Ashton said in a statement she was "closely following the events...
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Al Jazeera
| 12 months ago
52 Thousands of people flocked to northern Lebanon for the funeral of a cleric who opposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and whose killing triggered clashes in Beirut and raised fears that the Syrian crisis was spilling across the border.
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Lebanon's political leaders and Army must act swiftly to avert the country's slide toward a new round of sectarian strife as a result of the 15-month-old uprising in neighboring Syria, analysts said Monday. Simon Haddad, professor of political...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
No one doubts that the situation in Tripoli and across north Lebanon is dangerous, and most agree that the unprecedented escalation in the streets will have serious repercussions on the political situation in Lebanon. Perhaps Tripoli MP Mohammad...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Lebanon Monday as residents of the north laid to rest a prominent anti-Assad sheikh, but political tension remained high with Future Movement MPs calling on Prime Minister Najib Mikati to resign. Thousands of mourners took part in the funeral of...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
There was gunfire at Sheikh Ahmed Abdul-Wahid's funeral in northern Lebanon yesterday, a promise from the Lebanese army that they will investigate his killing by a soldier on Sunday, and a heap of appeals for calm from both the military and the...
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Denver Post
| 12 months ago
LebanonSyria's war barreled over the border with an angry, raucous funeral Monday for an anti-Syrian cleric whose killing set off a night of deadly street battles in Beirut and raised fears that Lebanon is getting drawn into the chaos afflicting its...
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Kuwait Times
| 12 months ago
Kuwait yesterday urged its citizens to avoid travel to Lebanon and also asked those already present there to leave after deadly clashes linked to the Syrian conflict left two people killed in Beirut. The foreign ministry called on Kuwaitis to cancel...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
The clash appeared to have stemmed from more than a week of unrest in the northern city of Tripoli, where many sympathize with the Sunni-dominated uprising in Syria. Daily protests and gun battles in Tripoli have sprung from resentment at the...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri discussed Monday with Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea developments in Beirut and the northern region Akkar and ways to confront the traps set by the tools of the Syrian regime in the country. They discussed the...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
At least two people were killed in heavy fighting between rival Sunni Muslim gunmen in Beirut on Monday, medical and security sources said, in the latest violence fueled by tensions over the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad. The clashes...
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Russia Today
| 12 months ago
Violence spread to Lebanon's capital after a week of turmoil fueled by clashes between groups at odds over Syria's regime. The suspected presence of Al-Qaeda and anti-Syrian sentiment has raised fears neutral Lebanon will be dragged into conflict.
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly voiced alarm Monday over recent security incidents in north Lebanon and Beirut and said differences should be resolved via dialogue, not violence. I have been very concerned at the incidents of violence...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Lebanon Gun battles between Lebanese factions supporting and opposing the government of President Bashar al-Assad spread to Beirut on Monday in the most serious outbreak of violence in Lebanon since the Syrian uprising began, leaving several people...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Garbage bins are set on fire by Lebanese Sunni Muslims, blocking a road at Corniche al-Mazraa in Beirut (Reuters) The Syrian crisis has contaminated Lebanon, after clashes between pro- and anti-Syrian groups have left three people killed and 18...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Future Movement official Mustafa Allouch said on Monday that Prime Minister Najib Mikati was either involved in the incidents that have rocked North Lebanon, or a speechless devil. In both cases [Mikati's] stance is a grave crime, because he cannot...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
VOA News May 21, 2012 Lebanese officials say heavy clashes have killed at least two people in Beirut, increasing fears that the conflict in Syria is spilling into its western neighbor. Officials said gunman clashed in the capital's Tariq al-Jadideh...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
During a meeting of Akkar's ulama in North Lebanon, attendees called on security forces to enforce their authority on all Lebanese lands, without discrimination, and withdraw [illegitimate] arms from the hands of those meddling with the country's...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Lebanese army soldiers stand in front a building in Beirut's Tariq al-Jedideh where overnight clashes left two people dead. (NOW Lebanon) Street battles between pro- and anti-Syrian groups in Beirut overnight left two people dead, a security official...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
Street battles in Beirut during the night between groups for and against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's embattled regime left two people dead, Lebanon's state-run news agency said on Monday. The fighting, which also wounded 18 people, erupted...
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CNN Blog
| 1 year ago
In the latest instance of the unrest in Syria spilling across the border into Lebanon, deadly clashes broke out in Beirut on Monday following the shooting death of two anti-Assad clerics at the hands of soldiers...The violence followed the killings...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Two die in first Beirut clashes over Syria conflict The Syrian conflict has reopened fault lines in Lebanon At least two people have been killed and 18 injured in clashes overnight in the Lebanese capital Beirut. The clashes, between Sunni pro- and...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Marada Movement leader MP Sleiman Franjieh said on Sunday that a military committee, representing all factions and religious sects, should be formed to investigate the killing of Sunni cleric Ahmad Abdel Wahed. He also said there were attempts to...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Daily Star Tires burn in the Cola area of Corniche al-Mazraa. Leaders from across the political spectrum Sunday called for calm in north Lebanon, and condemned the killings of Sheikh Ahmad Abdul-Wahed and Sheikh Mohammad al-Mereb at an Army...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Daily Star Abdel-Wahed's turban lies on the bloodied back seat of a car in the village of Tal Abbas, Akkar, north Lebanon. Lebanon: Fears grew over the stability of north Lebanon Sunday after soldiers shot dead a prominent anti-Assad Muslim...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Daily Star Garbage bins set on fire by Lebanese Sunni Muslim residents are seen blocking a road in Beirut, to protest the killing of Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Wahid, a Sunni Muslim cleric, and Muhammed Hussein Miraib, both members of the Lebanon-based...
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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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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Two members of an anti-Assad group have been shot dead in Lebanon, raising fears the turmoil in Syria is spilling over the border. Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Wahid, a Sunni Muslim cleric, and Muhammed Hussein Miraib, both members of the Lebanon-based March...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Khaled Al-Hariri/Reuters The Syrian army has killed 16 people, including children, during shelling in the town of Souran in the central province of Hama, the British-based rights group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says. "The army shelled...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Prime Minister Najib Mikati chaired a ministerial and security meeting at the Grand Serail on Sunday following the murder of Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed and his bodyguard and said the cabinet was committed to addressing the issue via a disciplinary and...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Lebanon's Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani announced Sunday three days of mourning over the death of Sheikh Ahmad Abdel-Wahid, who was killed at a Lebanese Army checkpoint in the north of the country. Dar al-Fatwa and the general...
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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
Sunni Sheikh Ahmad Rifai warned on Sunday that if relevant authorities did not work to solve the murder of Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed, the sheikhs in Akkar will have to form a Free Lebanese Army, the National News Agency reported. [We] call on the army...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Akkar's Sunni clerics condemned the murder of Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed and his bodyguard and said there were some figures in the military institution seeking to cause a rift between the latter and the people. There are some officers and members of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Future bloc leader MP Fouad Siniora said on Sunday that there was a conspiracy aimed to drag Lebanese people into a confrontation with the army. [Last week], Lebanese citizen Shadi al-Mawlawi was arrested in Tripoli to [cause problems] in the city.
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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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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Residents of northern region of Akkar block off roads to protest deaths of Sunni cleric and anti-Assad activist; Switzerland opens investigation in Syrian money laundering. Lebanese soldiers shot dead a Sunni cleric and a second member of an anti-...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Sunday followed up on the death of Lebanese citizen Shiekh Ahmad Abdel Wahid at a Lebanese army checkpoint in North Lebanon's Akkar, along with Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn, Interior Minister Marwan Charbel and other...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya on Sunday denied in a press statement media reports that it was involved in the two rallies taking place in the northern Lebanese town of Halba. We are not concerned with these two rallies, Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya said. It also...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Two people were killed in the north Lebanon region of Akkar near a Lebanese Army checkpoint. Sheikh Ahmad Abdul-Wahed, a supporter of Future Movement MP Khaled Daher, and an unidentified companion were shot at while the two were in a vehicle near the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Future bloc MP Khaled Daher told LBC television station that the rally to be held in the northern Lebanese town of Halba on Sunday was not called for by the Future Movement, but by the families of those who died during internal clashes on May 7, 2008.
