The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai criticized what he described as the decline in Lebanon's society including the rise of armed local clans, hinting that foreign forces may be fueling clashes in the northern city of Tripoli. We cannot accept the decline...
The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Tripoli Sunday following five days of fierce clashes that left at least 16 people dead, as efforts to permanently end the violence seemed to reach a dead end. Civil society groups held a sit-in outside the headquarters of the Tripoli Municipality,...
NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Free Syrian Army commander Colonel Riad al-Assaad said in remarks published on Sunday that releasing the Lebanese Shiite pilgrims abducted in Syria was not as easy as some people thought. Releasing the Lebanese abductees will not be as easy as some [...
NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai on Sunday voiced his rejection of the security chaos and [reemergence] of militia mentality and practices. Rai condemned the phenomenon of the so-called military councils of clans and sects, Lebanon's...
DAWN
| 9 months ago
A Lebanese man who was kidnapped with a group of 10 other Lebanese Shia pilgrims in Syria in May arrived home on Saturday, hours after Syrian rebels released him as a goodwill gesture. Hussein Omar is the first of the group, seized after they crossed...
The Guardian
| 9 months ago
A Lebanese man carrying a weapon crosses Syria Street in Bab al-Tabanneh in Tripoli, Lebanon, yesterday. Photograph: Sam Tarling/AFP/Getty Gunmen have transformed Tripoli, Lebanon 's northernmost city, into a war zone in the past week as rival groups...
