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Arab World: A democratically elected puppet?
Damascus :: Syria | about 12 hours ago
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It would seem that Syria suffered a major defeat last week with the formation of a Lebanese national unity government. Syria has for years fought long and hard to keep Lebanon under its thumb, but in 2004, with the assassination of former prime minister...
Tags: Hizbullah, Rafic Hariri, Syria, Saad Hariri, Lebanon, Lebanese, veto powers, national unity, prime minister, unity government, Damascus, Arab people, Fouad Siniora, Michel Aoun, Hezbollah, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Lebanon￢ﾀﾓSyria relations, Lebanese Civil War, Politics
Baroud says Rifi undermined his authority
Beirut :: Lebanon | 1 day ago
Credibility In an interview with An-Nahar newspaper published on Saturday, Interior Minister Ziad Baroud said that Internal Security Forces’ Director General Ashraf Rifi had undermined the instructions Baroud had given to him, when following a dispute, Rifi accused...
Tags: Ziad Baroud, Lebanon, Ziyad Baroud, Ashraf Rifi, Michel Sleiman, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Achraf Rifi, Antoine Chakkour, minist ziyad, Beirut, Internal Security Forces, Michel Aoun, Interior ministry, Ashraf, Lebanese people, Politics, Social Issues, Lebanese Forces, Marada Movement, Michel Suleiman, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanese military personnel, Bashar al-Assad, May 17 Agreement, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Fertile Crescent, Western Asia, Baathism, Syria, Arab League member states, Levant
STL prosecutors visit Lebanon to meet lawyers, academics
Beirut :: Lebanon | 1 day ago
Credibility Officials from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) tasked with prosecuting suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri visited Lebanon last week, the court’s Defense Office said Wednesday. François Roux, head of the Defense Office,...
Tags: Lebanon Bookmark, Saad Hariri, prime minister, ISF Judicial Police, minister saad, Rafic Hariri, Ziad Baroud, visit lebanon, ISF Command, Defense Office, Lebanon, Beirut, International criminal law, Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Law Crime, Hariri, Nabih Berri, Hezbollah, Lebanese government of July, Israel-Lebanon conflict, United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, Politics, War Conflict, Michel Aoun, Jumblatt family, Marada Movement, Antoine Zahra, Lebanese Civil War, Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese Forces, Arab Banks, Mediterranean, Economy of Lebanon, Banque du Liban, Business Finance
Aoun urges ISF �manipulation� investigation, reforms
Beirut :: Lebanon | 3 days ago
Credibility Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun has accused the head of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) of overstepping his jurisdiction, demanding sweeping reforms in the institution. Following the weekly meeting of his parliamentary bloc on Wednesday,...
Tags: Michel Aoun, Jumblatt-Franjieh, Walid Jumblatt, leader mp, Marada Movement, Suleiman Franjieh, Sleiman Franjieh, FPM, Issam Abu Jamra, Lebanon, Beirut, Arab Christians, Jumblatt family, Progressive Socialist Party, Politics, Lebanese Civil War, Druze, Jamra, Movement of the Future, Aoun, Free Patriotic Movement, Lebanese military personnel, Marada, Hassan Nasrallah, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Cabinet of Australia, New Zealand Cabinet, Cabinet, Gebran Bassil
Kiss the Independence Intifada goodbye
Beirut :: Lebanon | 3 days ago
Credibility The death of the Independence Intifada of 2005 has been prematurely announced many times. However, today we have in front of us a genuine corpse, the end of the fleeting aspiration four years ago, at least in its more restricted form, of establishing...
Tags: Nabih Berri, Lebanon Bookmark, administrative decentralization, speaker nabih, Finance Commission, Lebanon, Beirut, Arab League member states, Levant, Rafic Hariri, Michel Aoun, United Nations Security Council Resolution, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Fertile Crescent, Lebanon￢ﾀﾓSyria relations, Politics, Fouad Siniora, Hassan Sabeh, Saad Hariri, Hariri, Environment, Jumblatt family, Progressive Socialist Party, Syria, Druze, Walid Jumblatt, Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Cabinet, Taif Agreement, Hezbollah, Ban Ki-moon, Heraldo Muￃﾱoz, Muￃﾱoz
Sleiman: Lebanon to be “voice of Arab states” in UN
Beirut :: Lebanon | 3 days ago
Credibility Following his meeting with Seychelles President James Michel on Wednesday, President Michel Sleiman voiced hope that Lebanon would be “the voice of the Arab states and human rights” as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Tags: Michel Aoun, Jumblatt-Aoun, Ministerial Statement Committee, Voice of Lebanon, Lebanon Bookmark, United Lebanon, Saad Hariri, Walid Jumblatt, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Beirut, Islam and antisemitism, Lebanon War, Politics, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Islamic terrorism, Anti-Zionism, Outline of Lebanon, Fertile Crescent, Lebanese military personnel, Michel Suleiman, War Conflict, Progressive Socialist Party, Jumblatt family, Druze, Lebanese Civil War, Marada Movement, Lebanese Forces, Maronite Church, Syriac people
NOW exclusive: Khouri welcomes Kataeb-FPM understanding
Beirut :: Lebanon | 3 days ago
Credibility In a NOW exclusive, Change and Reform bloc MP Walid Khouri said his party, the Free Patriotic Movement, welcomes an “understanding” with the Kataeb Party “if the latter feels that FPM leader MP Michel Aoun’s political choices are right and serve national...
Tags: Walid Khouri, Kataeb Party, Lebanon, Beirut, Michel Aoun, Samy Gemayel, Free Patriotic Movement, Khoury, Lebanese Civil War, March 14 Alliance, Politics
Nahhas expresses reservations over plans to privatize telecom
Beirut :: Lebanon | 4 days ago
Credibility Newly appointed Telecom Minister Charbel Nahhas on Tuesday clearly voiced his rejection of the government’s bold privatization program when he explicitly said he won’t turn the state monopoly to a private monopoly. Speaking to reporters after taking his...
Tags: Saad Hariri, Syria, Rafic Hariri, prime minister, Nawwaf al-Moussawi, minister saad, Charbel Nahhas, Lebanon, Beirut, Free Patriotic Movement, Michel Aoun, Business Finance, Arab people, Fouad Siniora, Privatization, Government of Lebanon, Politics, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Lebanese Forces, Hariri, Taif Agreement, Hezbollah, Islam and antisemitism, March 14 Alliance, Ahmad Fatfat, Lebanese government of July, Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanon￢ﾀﾓSyria relations, Lebanese political protests, Lebanese general election, As-Safir
Patriarch says visiting Syria is “it out of question,” Hezbollah’s motives are “known”
Aleppo :: Syria | 5 days ago
Credibility Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir said on Monday that for him to visit Syria is “out of the question.” He also said that Hezbollah “is an armed party with known motives.” Sfeir said that he is against Palestinian naturalization, highlighting...
Tags: Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Hezbollah, Syria, Aleppo, Maronite Church, Lebanon, Rayfoun, Qornet Shehwan Gathering, Eastern Catholicism, Hassan Nasrallah, Politics, Gebran Bassil, Michel Aoun, Al-Manar, Islam and antisemitism, Free Patriotic Movement, Adwan, Lebanese Forces, Politics of Lebanon, Lebanese Civil War, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Irregular military
Sami Gemayel: Parties need “equal authority” over political, national matters
Beirut :: Lebanon | 6 days ago
Credibility At a ceremony commemorating Kataeb Party martyrs in Kfar Zebian on Sunday, party MP Sami Gemayel said that parties, in the future, should have “equal authority” over political and national matters. He added that Christians “will only agree to be equal...
Tags: Kataeb Party, association elections, kataeb parties, Amin Gemayel, Sami Gemayel, Lebanon, Beirut, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Michel Aoun, Gemayel, Free Patriotic Movement, Lebanese Civil War, Irregular military, Samy Gemayel, Politics, Arab people, Ghassan, Samer, Health Medical Pharma, Religion Belief, Amine Gemayel, March 14 Alliance, Lebanese by-elections, Qornet Shehwan Gathering, Pierre Amine Gemayel, Karim Pakradouni
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