An Israeli fighter plane shot down a drone from Lebanon over the Mediterranean sea on Thursday as it was approaching the Israeli coast, the military said. Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, which sent a drone deep into Israel in October, said it was not behind the latest incident. Israel’s military held back from accusing the group, […]

  Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel signed the civil marriage certificate of Kholoud Succariyeh and Nidal Darwish, the state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday. "By this, Succariyeh and Darwish’s union becomes the first civil marriage registered in the records of the Directorate General for Personal Affairs in Lebanon,” the NNA noted.   Charbel, however, pointed […]

    BEIRUT: The U.S. Treasury Department has designated two Lebanese money exchange firms as a ‘primary money laundering concern’ alleging the groups may be laundering millions of dollars of narcotics profits and funneling the money to Hezbollah, according to a press release issued Tuesday. The Treasury Department claims that Lebanese narcotics kingpin Ayman Joumaa […]

  President Michel Suleiman called on Wednesday on the Lebanese to abide by the dissociation policy and not to send arms shipments or fighters to the neighboring country Syria. The president called on different parties not to send “arms shipments and fighters to Syria and not to establish any training bases in Lebanon." He pointed […]

  It sounds as though the Tennis Channel could become a key part of Al Jazeera’s plans to gain traction in the U.S. According to the New York Post‘s Claire Atkinson, the Qatar-backed cable news empire is looking to acquire Tennis Channel to secure a foothold in the U.S. sports TV market. Al Jazeera has […]

  Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo Youhanna Ibrahim and Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo and Iskanderun Boulos al-Yaziji were kidnapped on Monday at the hands of gunmen near the northern Syrian city, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.   Archbishop Ibrahim picked up Archbishop Yaziji in his car from a village on the Turkish border […]

  In a sprawling industrial warehouse inside the heavily guarded Port of Beirut, you’ll find two things you probably weren’t expecting. Firstly, there’s a fully stocked and staffed Duty Free mall with no customers. Secondly, up three floors in a pitch black industrial elevator, there are 200,000 of Lebanon’s most valuable manuscripts and books.    […]

  BEIRUT: A large Lebanese delegation of around 50 political figures traveled to Syria for talks with President Bashar Assad Sunday in a move likely to raise tension in an already divided Lebanon over the crisis next door.   The visiting Lebanese delegation was composed of notable pro-Assad figures and parties from all sects, including […]