Hariri: No crisis or war this summer in Lebanon

Lebanon Prime Minister Saad Hariri reassured the Lebanese , during a Thursday meeting held to discuss the needs of cities and towns hosting tourists this summer, that there will be no crisis in the country. (more…)

Hezbollah chief: Some undisciplined party members may be indicted by STL

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah revealed at a press conference that some undisciplined members of Hezbollah may be indicted by STL but not the party. (more…)

Report: The bullet that hit Gulf air plane was 7.62 mm

A Gulf Air plane was forced to make an unexpected landing at the Rafik Hariri International Airport (RHIA) last Tuesday, shortly after a Royal Jordanian Airlines plane suffered a malfunction when a bird hit its tail. (more…)

Jumblatt says, he shares Hezbollah’s views over STL

During an interview with al Jazeera following his meeting with Suleiman Jumblatt said he shares Hezbollah’s concerns over STL.

President Michel Suleiman met on Thursday with Democratic Gathering leader MP Walid Jumblat as part of consultations with heads of parliamentary blocs in an effort to calm the situation in Lebanon following the speech last Friday of Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (more…)

Hezbollah chief meets Arslan and IAF

Lebanese National News Agency reported Thursday that Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met with Lebanese Democratic Party chief Talal Arslan to discuss the recent political developments.
Nasrallah also met with a delegation of the Islamic Action Front (more…)

FPM MP: Security in Lebanon will deteriorate if Hezbollah accused of Hariri’s murder

Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Helou told OTV on Thursday that the security situation in Lebanon will deteriorate if Hezbollah is accused of being behind the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Helou called on Lebanese leaders to defuse the tension prevailing in the country. (more…)

Palestinian shot dead in West Bank by Israeli soldiers

A Palestinian man has been shot dead by Israeli troops after entering a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

The man was killed on Thursday morning in Barkan, west of the city of Nablus. (more…)

Syria bans full Islamic face veils at universities

Syria has forbidden the country’s students and teachers from wearing the niqab — the full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman’s eyes — taking aim at a garment many see as political.

The ban shows a rare point of agreement between Syria’s secular, authoritarian government and the democracies of Europe: Both view the niqab as a potentially destabilizing threat. (more…)

Connelly: US will not support forced naturalization of Palestinians in Lebanon

Maura Connelly, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department Near Eastern Affairs bureau, and former charge d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Damascus, was nominated last month by US president Barack Obama to be the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon. That’s the job her boss Assistant Secretary of State Jeff Feltman previously held. (more…)

Gemayel: Hezbollah will not have its way

Commenting on the recent speech by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah , former Lebanese president and phalange party leader Amin Gemayel told Future TV on Wednesday evening: “We have all survived the same challenges, and we have all been through the same crises, so Hezbollah will not have its way.” (more…)