Lebanon News

President Michel Sleiman hosted on Wednesday reconciliation talks between Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader MP Walid Jumblatt and Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader MP Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace. Aoun described the meeting, which mainly focused on the issue of...

Kataeb Bloc MP Nadim Gemayel said on Wednesday that talks of abolishing political sectarianism are not coming at the right time, adding that all militias should be disarmed and the state should have authority over its territories before political sectarianism...

President of the Constitutional Council Issam Sleiman revealed Wednesday that all parliamentary election complaints were turned down unanimously by the Council. Sleiman added that no “conclusive evidence” of election fraud was found to annul any of the votes. Many of the 19...

Tawhid Movement leader Wiam Wahhab said on Wednesday that Hezbollah’s arms will remain as long as there is conflict between the Arabs and Israel. “When the world tells us how the naturalization of Palestinians issue will be resolved, then we...

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) moved to consolidate ties with Lebanon’s citizens by promoting its Arabic-language website, launched in August, in a press briefing held in the southern coastal city of Tyre. UNIFIL was the first UN peacekeeping...

Democratic Gathering bloc MP Marwan Hamadeh told the Voice of Lebanon radio station on Wednesday that Labor Minister Boutros Harb and Social Affairs Minister Selim Sayegh “will not be left alone in the Ministerial Statement [Committee],” a possible reference to...

Gil Yohanan Lebanon will be held accountable for Hezbollah actions, defense minister says Hagai Einav   "We will not accept the equation whereby a UN member state is home to a militia in possession of 40,000 rockets but also parliament...

Najjar refused to disclose the name of the dismissed judge, but Al-Liwaa identified the judge as Tanios Ghantous.  Sleiman added that reforms must be taken only by the administration of the judiciary, without outside interference. He said that he discussed...

Following its weekly meeting on Wednesday, the March 14 General Secretariat issued a statement saying that the national defense strategy should be the only issue up for discussion in National Dialogue. It said that “the call to form a national...