BEIRUT: A Hezbollah minister met Wednesday with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and stressed the need to hold a session of the resigned government in...
BEIRUT: The Foreign Ministry has not been approached with any requests to arrange meetings between U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and top Lebanese...
Efforts to unify the Christians of Lebanon in order to protect the community from the worst of the fallout from regional and internal crises have so far...
BEIRUT: The Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s top administrator met Thursday with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati amid speculation over the...
BEIRUT: A high-level security source well acquainted with the deal that brought about the release of nine Lebanese hostages captured by an opposition brigade...
President Michel Sleiman has resigned himself to the fact that his mandate will not be extended when it expires in May, despite the best efforts of a number...
BEIRUT: Parliament will convene Tuesday to elect committee and secretariat members, but the fate of the legislative session to follow the next day remains...
BEIRUT: Change and Reform bloc MP Alain Aoun said Thursday that the upcoming meeting between key MPs and ministers belonging to the Free Patriotic Movement...
BEIRUT: March 14 MPs accused their political opponents Wednesday of using Lebanon’s disputed territorial waters with Israel as a pretext for Hezbollah...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah and the resistance are “two different entities,” Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya MP Imad al-Hout told The Daily Star Thursday, emphasizing...
BEIRUT: If it comes down to a choice between renewing the term of President Michel Sleiman and confronting a presidential vacuum, then the former is...
The extension of President Michel Sleiman’s six-year-term in office, which expires in May next year, appears to be unlikely if not impossible for now because...
BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman’s expected visit to Saudi Arabia is aimed at confirming strong Lebanese-Saudi ties and showing the presidency’s...
BEIRUT: Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun denied Monday media reports that he would resign from his post within six months, as an FPM member said...
BEIRUT: Parliament failed to convene Monday for a fifth consecutive time in three months. A lack of quorum again foiled the attempt as Future Movement MP...
Political sources close to the Cabinet formation process are denying reports of an imminent deal on a new government based on any of the scenarios currently...
BEIRUT: The receding threat of a U.S.-led military strike on Syria has had a positive impact on the tense political and security situation in Lebanon, senior...
The meeting between Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Lebanon and Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun Thursday was not meant to discuss the latter’s...
BEIRUT: A meeting between caretaker Social Affairs Minister Wael Abu Faour and senior Saudi officials bore no fruit, political sources said Monday, further...
BEIRUT: No imminent breakthrough is expected in the four-month-long Cabinet deadlock given the conditions and counterconditions set by the rival political...
BEIRUT: Efforts to form a new Cabinet have so far not yielded any positive results, political sources said Monday, dashing hopes for an early birth of a...
Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun is experiencing a cooling-off in ties with several former allies, and his recent meeting with President Michel...
With no solution in sight to the four-month-old Cabinet deadlock, the March 14 coalition may push for the election of a new Parliament speaker as part of its...
BEIRUT: Despite signals from Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam that the Cabinet formation efforts will be stepped up after the Eid al-Fitr holiday,...
BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman joined the March 14 coalition Thursday in voicing support for the formation of a neutral government to break the nearly...