Beirut - Members of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon on Thursday began erecting a barbed-wire fence along the Lebanon-Israel border to prevent violations of the 'Blue Line' that could jeopardize the region's fragile ceasefire.
Damascus - The United States is using the ongoing investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri as a means to pressure Damascus politically, a foreign ministry official said Thursday.
Beirut / Washington - The top two U.S. officials in Iraq accused Iran, Syria and Lebanon's Hezbollah on Tuesday of fueling recent fighting in Baghdad, saying Tehran and Damascus were pursuing a "Lebanization strategy" in Iraq.
By Diana Elias A key witness in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri has reportedly called a Kuwaiti newspaper to say that he is well but in hiding in Europe for fear for his life, the
When they founded Bokja Designs in 2000, Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibri aspired to combine the age-old artisan traditions of the East with contemporary furniture designs against the background of Lebanon's rich cultural and historical heritage, as Bokja's homepage explains.
The Lebanese village of Tanoura in the Bekaa Valley shares a common concern with the Jordanian town of Irbil: a lack of reliable water supply. In Tanoura, just one well provides the entire village with water, and people are forced
Music resonates down the rundown streets of Beddawi, an overpopulated suburb of Tripoli. People have moved into garages and covered the entrance with bed sheets in a feeble attempt at privacy. Children play on the sidewalks. Their parents sit around
The UN Development Program (UNDP) is about to flood Lebanon's media with tales of ordinary citizens who took the initiative to make positive changes in their surroundings here, in a campaign to shatter the negative tone permeating the country's public
Spain officially joined the ART GOLD (ART) initiative in Lebanon during a conference held at the UN House in Beirut on Wednesday, becoming the second large European state to directly support the project. Established in 2004 by the United Nations
Information Minster Ghazi Aridi stressed the importance of holding a dialogue on Wednesday. "Yet for a large-scale crisis, dialogue must be led by the president," Aridi said. "Speaker Nabih Berri is too smart to undertake any move that would counter
Saudi Arabia is believed to be behind the assassination of top Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency said in a report carried on Wednesday. The report, carried by the Italian news agency Aki, said Fars quoted unidentified
MP Ali Bazzi of the Development and Liberation bloc told LBC television on Wednesday that "France has adopted an advanced and balanced position and supports Speaker Nabih Berri's call for dialogue." "There is French support for Berri's initiatives, regardless of
Hizbullah politburo member Ghaleb Abu Zeinab said on Wednesday that the political situation in Lebanon was "stagnant." "As soon as an initiative is launched to achieve a breakthrough, it is met by rejection from all sides. The latest was Prime
The Union for Lebanon, a newly founded political group headed by Massoud al-Ashkar, warned against attempts to settle Palestinians in Lebanon. "The settlement of Palestinians has sparked the 1975-1990 Civil War and until today this predicament still persists," the union
Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said on Wednesday that his main concern was holding presidential elections in Lebanon in a bid to revive state institutions and "lead the Lebanese toward the future." In his continued effort to hold an Arab foreign
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hosted Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz on Wednesday for a summit that was expected to focus on the power struggle in Lebanon, the war in Iraq, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the paltry state of inter-Arab relations.
MP Michel Murr said on Wednesday that delaying the election of a new president until rival parties reach agreements on other less important issues was unjustifiable. Murr said that the first step toward solving the ongoing political crisis was the
A key Syrian witness in the probe into the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri who has gone missing disappeared a month ago, officials in France said Wednesday."All we know is that he left his home on March
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to sack his economy and interior ministers, in the latest changes to the Cabinet just after parliamentary elections, his spokesman said on Wednesday. Economy and Finance Minister Davoud Danesh Jaafari and Interior Minister Mostafa Pour
