Michel Aoun

Border Demarcation after Exchange of Ambassadors, Syrian Sources High-ranking Syrian sources confir

High-ranking Syrian sources confirmed that the agreement between Damascus and Beirut would be put into effect, stressing that exchange of ambassadors would take place before year's end. The sources said that once "technical...

March 14 warns against resurrecting Lebanese-Syrian security committees

March 14’s General Secretariat warned against resurrecting Lebanese-Syrian committees for security coordination in light of what the secretariat said was Syria suspicious recent behavior. In a statement issued after an...

Daily Star Political News: Chamoun's NLP plans to contest four seats in 2009 parliamentary polls

Dori Chamoun and three other candidates from his National Liberal Party (NLP) will be running in the spring parliamentary elections, Chamoun told The Daily Star during an interview Tuesday. NLP candidates will be running in the...

Daily Star Political News: Carter, Brown to visit Lebanon

Former US President Jimmy Carter is expected to visit Lebanon and Syria this month as part of a tour of several countries in the region, official Lebanese sources told As-Safir newspaper Tuesday. The same sources also said...

Nasrallah urges timely elections, wider dialogue

Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday that it was crucial for Lebanon's 2009 legislative elections to be held "on time." "Not holding the elections or postponing them would be very dangerous," Nasrallah said in...

Daily Star Political News: Nasrallah urges timely elections, wider dialogue

Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday that it was crucial for Lebanon's 2009 legislative elections to be held "on time." "Not holding the elections or postponing them would be very dangerous," Nasrallah said in...

March 14 will win 2009 parliamentary elections in all Lebanese regions, says Adwan

Lebanese Forces MP Georges Adwan said the general guidelines of the national defense strategy were agreed upon. “What job do we need to assign to the Lebanese state? Do we want it to be a hostile state always or a stable...

Jumblat Hammers Aoun's Defense Strategy, Rejects Security Committees with Syria

Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat on Tuesday criticized Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun's defense strategy blueprint, saying it results in "mounting chaos … throughout Lebanon." Jumblat, in an article...

Geagea to Aoun: Your Allies are Most Corrupt in the Country

Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea commented to charges of corruption made earlier by leader of Change and Reform Bloc MP Michel Aoun, "An issue that he always addresses" said Geagea. "The most corrupt in the country are...

Sheikh Ammar confirms alliance with Future Movement

The head of Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya’s political bureau in Lebanon, Ali Sheikh Ammar, has said slammed the airing of alleged Fatah al-Islam members confessing to having received funding from the Future Movement on Syrian state TV...