The events that have unfolded in Lebanon between the election of a new president of the Republic on Thursday 9 January and ...
Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the ... political weakening of Hezbollah following its war with Israel and the fall of its ally, Assad, in Syria, along ...
Few months after they signed the deal Hezbollah initiated its 2006 war with Israel which destroyed Lebanon’s infrastructure ...
Aoun was elected by the Lebanese parliament on Thursday, ending over two years of political vacuum since President Michel Aoun left ... Under the cease-fire terms, Israel is required to withdraw ...
The U.S. Department of Justice vigorously opposed at a French court hearing in December the release of a Lebanese militant ...
weeks after Israel and Lebanon entered a 60-day cease-fire. The political division had derailed Lebanon, leaving the country without a president following the end of the tenure of Michel Aoun — who is ...
Beirut: Head of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement MP Gebran Bassil has demonstrated his ability to change his stances and adapt to changes in the country.This was clearly shown when he backed Joseph ...
Lebanon’s new president has demanded that Israel must withdraw from his country ... of the international community,” President Joseph Aoun’s office said on Saturday after his meeting ...
Analysts say Hezbollah's weakening in the war with Israel last year allowed Lebanon's deeply divided political class to elect Aoun and to back his naming of Salam as premier. Islamist-led rebels ...
His remarks follow a speech by Hizbollah leader Naim Qassem who accused Israel of hundreds of ceasefire violations, warning it against testing “our patience” and calling on the Lebanese state to be ...
France’s president began a visit to Lebanon Friday, where he will meet the crisis-hit country’s newly elected leaders, as the ...