Beirut Readymade

Hizbullah yesterday took control of a strategic mountain-top village in Druze heartlands south-east of the capital after fierce fighting with government allies, consolidating strategic gains that analysts said would be used in confrontations with ...

My exclusive Lebanese Intelligence sources tell me that a number of Hezbollah terrorist fighters have been caught, over the weekend, and they cannot speak Arabic, only Farsi. They are Iranian and have identified themselves or been identified by ...

Supporters of Lebanon's U.S.-backed government and opponents battled with rockets and machine guns in the mountains overlooking Beirut Sunday as clashes shifted to outside the capital. Beirut was quiet a day after Hezbollah gunmen left the streets, ...

Pro-government Sunni Muslim gunmen fought militiamen allied to Hezbollah in the northern city of Tripoli on Monday, in further violence that has already dismantled the balance of power in Lebanon. The upheaval, which began when Hezbollah and its ...

May 12, 2008, 15:12 Dubai: The Lebanese crisis headed towards further escalation yesterday as the ruling majority said it will not retract the two controversial decisions, at the centre of the current tension with Hezbollah, anytime soon....

Shiite factions whose fighters swept through the capital on Thursday and Friday...Ahmad, a Sunni, had been visiting a friend when gunmen stormed the building and destroyed his car, parked below. His brother had been at home when the gunmen ...

The new election date is now set for June 10 The announcement of the postponement comes a day before ( May 13) the Parliament was scheduled to meet to choose a new president. Lebanon has been without a president since the pro-Syrian president Emile ...

Over the past two weeks, the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) underwent a significant amount of trading activity characterized by a one-week rally making an about face as political tensions flared...However, the subsequent week's strike and political ...

The Beirut of the resistance issued the first bullets of the resistance. -The kidnapping, execution and disfiguring of the bodies in Aley were not broadcast to avoid the boiling over of people's sentiments. -What happened yesterday is that PSP ...

Beirut's Rafik Hariri airport remains closed amid intensified clashes between Hezbollah fighters and pro-government supporters. A spokesperson for Emirates said: "Because of the ongoing situation in Lebanon, Emirates' flights between Dubai and ...