BEIRUT: The Future Movement and Hezbollah held a new round of talks Tuesday night despite a fierce war of words that raged between the two sides in the past...
BEIRUT: Rival political leaders failed Monday to make any headway on the 17-month presidential impasse, while chances of convening a Cabinet session to tackle...
Public and behind-the-scene contacts among the country’s main political parties have intensified a few days before the resumption of national dialogue...
BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri said Wednesday he is determined to hold a legislative session as soon as possible in order to approve the World Bank’s $600...
BEIRUT: The parliamentary Future bloc Tuesday upheld its support for the government and national dialogue, in a clear rebuff to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan...
BEIRUT: Parliament will meet Tuesday with a secured quorum, not to choose a president or approve urgent draft laws, but rather to re-elect members of its...
Prime Minister Tammam Salam hinted at the possibility of the government’s resignation Sunday, saying if it were not to return to being productive there would...
Amid a boycott by the Free Patriotic Movement’s ministers, the call for a Cabinet session, either to discuss the nearly 3-month-old trash crisis or other...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam’s patience is running out and he could resign if Cabinet paralysis continues, ministerial sources said Thursday,...
Prime Minister Tammam Salam might call for a Cabinet session next week while contacts continue to ensure the participation of the government’s main...
BEIRUT: The fate of national dialogue and the government are up in the air following rival leaders’ failure Wednesday to resolve the thorny issue of...
BEIRUT: Rival leaders attending a new round of national dialogue resorted Tuesday to backstage diplomacy in an attempt to achieve a breakthrough in the...
BEIRUT: The fourth round of national dialogue Tuesday was dominated by the trash crisis, overshadowing the 16-month presidential election deadlock, which has...
BEIRUT: Rising political tensions between rival factions are casting gloom over a new round of all-party talks and a Future-Hezbollah dialogue planned for...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam is taking a wait-and-see stance before calling for a Cabinet session, pending the outcome of ongoing consultations to...
BEIRUT: Senior officials scrambled Wednesday to defuse a crisis that would have scuttled an agreement on military promotions and threatened the fate of...
BEIRUT: Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun threatened Tuesday to boycott the national dialogue as efforts to reach a deal over military promotions,...
BEIRUT: Convening the Cabinet hinges on the outcome of ongoing contacts between Speaker Nabih Berri, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and MP Walid Jumblatt...
BEIRUT: A crucial meeting held on the sidelines of a new national dialogue session Tuesday failed to make headway on the issue of military promotions, a key...
BEIRUT: Rival political leaders agreed during their third round of dialogue Tuesday to intensify efforts aimed at ending the 16-month presidential deadlock by...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s rival leaders will sit for a third round of dialogue Tuesday, with Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun likely to boycott the...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet is unlikely to meet next week as a new round of national dialogue is held in light of lingering rifts among ministers over promotions of...
BEIRUT: Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun is likely to boycott the National Dialogue sessions because he considers these talks to be futile,...
BEIRUT: Anti-government activists vowed Tuesday to stage a new mass demonstration in Downtown Beirut Wednesday to derail a second round of National Dialogue,...
BEIRUT: Senior officials, apprehensive of anti-government street demonstrations over the failure to resolve the garbage crisis, warned civil society groups...