BEIRUT: Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil will attend next week’s national dialogue session during which he will bring up the thorny issue of the interpretation...
BEIRUT: The Free Patriotic Movement Thursday reacted swiftly to the holding of a Cabinet session by questioning the legitimacy of the government and warning...
BEIRUT: The inaction of Cabinet at Thursday’s session paved the way for extending the term of the chief of the Higher Defense Council and set the stage...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet is expected Thursday to set the stage for the launching of key military appointments, a contentious issue that threatens to cast the...
BEIRUT: Political and military sources told The Daily Star Friday that they have acquired information indicating the term of Lebanese Army chief Gen. Jean...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet agreed Thursday to form a ministerial committee to address the environmental calamity afflicting the Litani River that threatens...
BEIRUT: Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil was locked in a war of words Tuesday with former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora over alleged corruption and bribery at...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet Friday tasked the Council for Development and Reconstruction with preparing an analytical study and a general plan for all the projects it...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam is unlikely to renew the term of State Security deputy head Brig. Gen. Mohammad Tufayli, sources told The Daily Star...
Free Patriotic Movement founder Michel Aoun has yet to secure his path to the presidency, despite optimism within his party that he will be elected president...
BEIRUT: Kataeb ministers walked out of a Cabinet session Thursday in protest of what they called flaws in the implementation of a trash plan, as the...
BEIRUT: The joint parliamentary committees, having failed to reach consensus on a new electoral law, agreed Tuesday to wait for rival political leaders to...
BEIRUT: Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk isn’t cooperating enough over investigations into the ongoing internet scandal, chair of Parliament’s...
An emerging pattern in the final installment of municipal elections, held across north Lebanon Sunday, reveals that political parties failed to effectively...
As the power vacuum this week entered its third year with no end in sight, and while key political blocs spar on whether the presidential vote should come...
BEIRUT: The joint parliamentary committees decided Thursday to limit their discussions on a new electoral law to two hybrid proposals that call for a...
BEIRUT: The Future Movement Wednesday poured cold waters on Speaker Nabih Berri’s initiative to break the presidential deadlock that called for holding...
Neither key Christian parties, nor families have emerged as absolute or sole winners from the second round of municipal and mukhtar elections held in Mount...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah ministers urged Prime Minister Tammam Salam during a Cabinet session Thursday to resist U.S. pressure to implement financial sanctions...
BEIRUT: Days after their newly born alliance won the municipal elections in Zahle, the Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement find themselves on...
BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri said Lebanon’s Parliament will not extend its term a third time Wednesday, as he underscored the importance of forging...
BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri adjourned a session for Parliament’s joint committees discussing an electoral law till May 19 due to the absence of relevant...
BEIRUT: The first round of talks by joint parliamentary committees on a host of electoral draft laws got off to a gloomy start Tuesday with most lawmakers...
BEIRUT: Having failed to address urgent issues like the worsening socio-economic crisis and enduring political differences among its members in past sessions,...
With no end in sight to the presidential vacuum which next month enters its third year, sources in the Hezbollah-led March 8 coalition painted an even...