Future, PSP will be allies in 2013 polls, official

Future Movement official former MP Moustafa Allouch said on Wednesday that his party will form an alliance with Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt for the 2013 parliamentary elections.

“The heart of Walid Jumblatt and most of his supporters have never left the core of the March 14 [coalition]. (more…)

Hezbollah MP criticizes the Cabinet’s “sluggish performance”

Hezbollah MP Hasan Fadlallah criticized the cabinet on Monday for failure to implement its decisions and described its performance as as “sluggish.”

“The problem lies in the government’s failure to implement its decisions,” Fadlallah said in a statement. (more…)

Jumblatt denies any change in alliance

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said on Sunday that his support for the Syrian uprising does not mean a change in his domestic alliances, stressing that his ministers will not resign from the cabinet of PM Najib Mikati. (more…)

Hezbollah seeking to improve Aoun-Jumblatt ties

Hezbollah is reportedly seeking to improve ties between Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt and and its Christian ally Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Michel Aoun ahead of the 2013 parliamentary elections according to al-Hayat report on Sunday. (more…)

Jumblatt: Hezbollah must join the Syrian uprising

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt in remarks to be published on Tuesday called on Hezbollah to join the Syrian uprising.

“The resistance in Lebanon must one day join the resistance of the Syrian people,” Jumblatt told the weekly newspaper Al-Anbaa. (more…)

Living on the edge of Syria’s bloody war

By Robert Fisk
As Assad’s troops fire shots across the border into Lebanon, the nation’s religious factions remain bitterly divided on how to tackle their neighbour from hell: President Assad

Anti-regime Druze spiritual leader killed in Syria

A Syrian Druze leader opposed to President Bashar al-Assad was killed Saturday in the city of Soueida, the Syrian Waqf Ministry and Druze Unitarians’ Sect has announced.

Druze Sheikh al-Aql Ahmed Salman Al-Hajari’s death was blamed on “a car accident,” according to the statement released by the Syrian government’s Syrian News Agency (SANA), stating he “died in a tragic car accident as when the car he was travelling in collided with another car on the old highway of Mardek, Shahba.” (more…)

Syria negotiated with Al Qaeda affiliate to assassinate Lebanese Druze leader Jumblatt

The Al-Qaeda affiliated Abdallah Azzam Brigades on Saturday issued a statement that Syria “offered to release some of our Jihadist leaders imprisoned in the jails of the Syrian regime in exchange for assassinating Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt.” No further details were offered. (more…)

Jumblatt places Syrian rebel flag on fathers grave on assassination anniversary

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat placed on Friday the Syrian rebels’ flag on the grave of his father in al-Mukhtara on the anniversary of his assassination.

According to the National News Agency, a number of ministers and MPs were present during the commemoration. (more…)

Aoun: Assad will claim victory in Syria, the crisis will end soon

Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun said on Tuesday that “the crisis in Syria will end soon.” Aoun also commented on MP Walid Jumblatt’s statements against late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, saying: “I wish he had made these statements while he was in Lebanon; I am afraid he will start issuing statements from the North Pole.” (more…)