Baghdad - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani slammed Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for his call for resistance in Iraq and advised him to focus on settling Lebanon's domestic problems and to leave Iraq alone
Beirut / Damascus- Syria's banned Muslim Brotherhood warned against the possible spread of factional violence from Lebanon to neighboring states and urged the Emir of Qatar to "protect" Lebanon's Sunni community.
Beirut - Lebanon's Head of the Administration and Justice Parliamentary Committee Robert Ghanem said there was a "resolution" to block the formation of a national unity cabinet, which also obstructed the beginning of the President Michel Suleiman's mandate.
Beirut- Lebanon said on Tuesday a prisoner swap deal reached between Israel and Hezbollah marked a "big failure" for the Jewish state which had earlier refused to agree to such a plan.
Beirut - According to Lebanese National news Agency , the Syrian authorities have imposed a fee of 550 ( about $10) on every that travels from Syria to Lebanon .
Sudan could tip into "freefall" unless the international community helps to resolve its multiple crises, Britain's minister for Africa said on the sidelines of an African summit on Monday. A lack of progress toward resolving the five-and-a-half-year-old Darfur conflict, fighting
Relative political newcomer Moussa Toybou won the presidential election on the Comoros isle of Anjouan, a government minister announced Monday, three months after renegade leader Mohamed Bacar was ousted. Toybou, a 45-year-old engineer, secured 52.37 percent of the vote in
The Israeli Parliament passed a law on Monday banning any citizen who has visited an "enemy" country in the previous seven years from standing for election to the legislature, triggering the anger of Palestinian-Israeli MPs. Fifty-two members of the 120-seat
The U.S. has legitimate reason to be concerned about Pakistan's stability. The country has become a haven not only for al-Qaida and the Taliban but for international terrorism. There is no doubt that Pakistan needs help to defeat extremists.
A prisoner swap with Hizbullah could go ahead in two weeks if the Lebanese resistance provides a report on the fate of an Israeli airman who went missing in Lebanon in 1986, officials said on Monday. The Israeli Cabinet gave
Lebanese political leaders reacted Monday to an Israeli cabinet decision taken on Sunday in which an overwhelming majority of Israeli ministers voted in favor of a prisoner exchange with Hizbullah. Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader MP Michel Aoun, who is
President Michel Sleiman chaired a meeting on Monday to discuss the shaky security situation in Lebanon, and means by which violations could be contained. The meeting at Baabda Palace was attended by acting Lebanese Armed Forces Commander General Shawki al-Masri,
An Israeli spokesman would not comment on the report, which said that Yoram Turbovitz, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's bureau chief, and Shalom Turjeman, a senior aide to the premier, were to depart for Turkey Monday night for a third round
The facility gives Nawras customers the opportunity to make and accept calls as well as send and receive SMS during their flight, the company said in a statement, adding: "Convenient billing is in the normal way with roaming charges clearly
According to the Ministry of Health's statistics, 11.9 per cent of females in the age group of 15 to 18 years are smokers. A total of 7.1 per cent of adult women are also found to be smokers. Around 43
