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British newspaper The Guardian reported on Sunday that Hezbollah is reinforcing its military to prepare for an eventual retaliation against Israel, should the latter attack Lebanon prior to a military assault on Iran. The newspaper quoted a Hezbollah...
Tags: Israeli Army, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Iranian
The National Bloc issued a statement on Thursday saying that the “ultimate goal” of Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, “like all the former patriarchs,” is defending Lebanon’s existence. The statement expressed surprise at “how some Christians,...
Tags: Lebanon, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Nasrallah Butros Sfeir, maronite patriarchs
Development and Liberation bloc MP Yassine Jaber issued a statement Wednesday on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s 11th report to the Security Council on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 – which said that disarming all armed...
Tags: UN Security Council, Lebanon
In remarks that instantly became the focus of Western media outlets, Israeli military sources said they found a large cache of weapons when they stormed a Lebanon-bound ship on Tuesday. The sources added that the ship, which is currently being unloaded...
Tags: Israeli Navy, Lebanese Hezbollah, Iran, Merkel, Lebanon, arms ship, deny link, hezbollah deny, ship carrying, hezbollah guerrillas
Following its weekly meeting, the March 14 General Secretariat issued a statement on Wednesday stressing the necessity to form the cabinet “as soon as possible to ensure Lebanon’s safety as well as for the proper functioning of its constitutional institutions.”...
Tags: Lebanon, General Secretariat, Sfeir
After meeting with Speaker Nabih Berri at Ain al-Tineh on Monday, his Swedish counterpart Per Westerberg said that Lebanon should have a cabinet and that current deliberations are within the democratic framework. Westerberg said Lebanon is a model of...
Tags: Nabih Berri, Lebanon, Saad Hariri, leaders mp, Michel Aoun, mp michel, movement leaders, designated saad, Walid Jumblatt, speaker nabih
Globally, Lebanon ranked ahead of Bangladesh, Zambia and Nepal and came behind Mali, Senegal and Belarus. The index uses a holistic definition of prosperity to include both material wealth and quality of life. It finds the most prosperous nations in...
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November appeared to usher in winter for Lebanon as the weather drastically changed over the weekend from warm and sunny to pouring rain and thunderstorms. The sudden storm wreaked havoc in residential and agricultural areas throughout the country and...
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In an interview with Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa on Sunday, Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Nawwaf Moussawi said that Israel’s war on Lebanon is taking place through security breaches and espionage, including assassination operations and intelligence...
Tags: Lebanon, Israeli, Dan Halutz, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, idf chiefs, Hezbollah, minister moshe, lebanon war, Moshe Yaalon
Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir told Al-Massira magazine in an interview to be published on Saturday that “weapons and democracy cannot co-exist, just like majority and minority cannot meet in one cabinet.” He said there is “someone on the...
Tags: Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Lebanon