Druze Israeli MP seeks Turkey’s OK to deliver aid to Syrian refugees

An Israeli lawmaker is seeking permission from the Turkish government to visit Syrian refugees in Turkey and deliver humanitarian aid to them, an Israeli news report said on Thursday. (more…)

Wahhab’s bodyguard charged with spying for Israel, report

The personal bodyguard of former minister Wiam Wahhab has been charged by Judge Saq Saqr of the Lebanese military court with collaborating with Israel, including participating directly and indirectly in assassinations against Hezbollah fighters according to report on Thursday by al-Akhbar newspaper. (more…)

Two Dutch diplomats abducted in Lebanon, freed in Syria

The Dutch embassy in Beirut said Thursday that two Dutch diplomats ( and not one as initial reports indicated ) were kidnapped last month in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley and handed over to Syrian authorities across the border, who freed them after discovering their identity and the way they were brought into Syria. (more…)

Defecting Syrian soldiers join refugees in Turkey

To the cheers and surprise of the people on the street, two truckloads of Syrian soldiers defied orders and joined the demonstrators in northern Syria this week — a mass defection that reveals the key weakness of the Assad regime. (more…)

Al Liwa sources: Opposition is forming a shadow cabinet

Al Liwa sources at March 14 revealed that the new opposition is in process of forming a shadow cabinet ( alternative cabinet to the government’s) whose members will shadow or mark each individual member of the government, similar to the British system . (more…)

Al Liwa sources: The cabinet was “Made in Syria’

Al Liwa sources at the new opposition revealed the key role that Syrian president Bashar al Assad played which led to the formation of the cabinet after five months of infighting over shares in the new government. (more…)

Aoun ministers and PM Mikati clash during first cabinet meeting

Al Liwa newspaper reported that PM Nagib Mikati clashed over two issues with the ministers that represent FPM leader MP Michel Aoun during the first session of the newly formed cabinet that was held at the Baabda Palace: (more…)

Jumblatt says the new cabinet is a national unity cabinet

Yesterday Progressive Socialist party leader MP Walid Jumblatt claimed that the new majority has proven that it can govern and today he said the new cabinet is a national unity cabinet .

He made the first statement barely one day after the cabinet was announced and made the second statement on Wednesday after visiting PM (more…)

Zahle bomb threat turned out to be a hoax

A bomb threat turned out to be a hoax. (more…)

No word on whereabouts of missing Syrian opposition leader

The Lebanese security authorities announced Wednesday that they were still searching for the 86 years old Shibli al-Ayssami, one of the original co-founders of the Syrian Baath Party. Ayssami is considered a veteran of the Syrian opposition. (more…)