The Lebanese army contained on Monday a family dispute in the northern district of Akkar that left several people dead and wounded, the state-run National News Agency and Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported. NNA said that Ahmed Hamza was killed and his brother Shaalan and three others were injured when the dispute on […]

  BEIRUT: The Health Ministry announced Monday that sweets purchased from a Bekaa Valley street vendor were responsible for poisoning seven people over the weekend. The vendor, an employee at al-Jarrah pastry shop, was selling the sweets from a vehicle that lacked refrigerators, the ministry said. Seven people, including a mother and her four children […]

  European Union Ambassador to Lebanon Angelina Eichhorst has expressed regret that she will leave Lebanon at the end of her mission amid a continued vacuum at the presidential palace in Baabda. In remarks to An Nahar daily published on Friday, the diplomat said: “I regret that I will leave Beirut in this situation, without […]

  BEIRUT: A stormy Cabinet session ended Thursday with a compromise that allowed Prime Minister Tammam Salam to pass one agenda item relating to funds to public hospitals, while the Free Patriotic Movement’s ministers won a pledge to discuss the government’s decision-making system at the next meeting. The long-simmering tension between FPM leader MP Michel […]

  BEIRUT: A Lebanese national who had joined extremist group ISIS was killed in Iraq, according to media reports Friday. Hasan al-Masri, better known by his nom de guerre “Aba al-Qassem al-Lubnani” was killed fighting alongside ISIS in Iraq. Masri hails from the Tripoli neighborhood of Baddawi. Around 400 people from north Lebanon are believed […]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s Prince Saud al-Faisal, who was the world’s longest-serving foreign minister with 40 years in the post until his retirement this year, has died, the ministry spokesman said Thursday. He was 75.

  BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam Thursday appeared unmoved by street protests called for by Free Patriotic Movement leader Aoun to coincide with a Cabinet session Thursday. "The Cabinet meeting will take place today as scheduled to [discuss] the agenda as is,” Salam said in remarks published Thursday by local daily As-Saifr. Salam said the […]

  The Lebanese army arrested two Syrian nationals at dawn after confiscating some amounts of weapons and ammunition that they kept in hiding, the National News Agency stated on Thursday. The army raided a warehouse in Tripoli’s al-Qobbeh which belongs to Syrian nationals of the al-Raayan family. They found some quantities of arms and ammo […]

  Vehicles packed with supporters of the Free Patriotic Movement roamed the streets in several regions Wednesday evening, as the FPM continued to prepare for Thursday’s street action, which FPM chief Michel Aoun has described as a “fateful battle.” “FPM supporters from all regions have started heading to the Nahr el-Mot area, where they will […]

  BEIRUT: A dozen protesters held a brief and unannounced protest against electricity cuts in Beirut Tuesday, blocking a major highway linking the city to the southern suburbs. According to The Daily Star’s photographer, the protesters set fire to piles of garbage on the highway leading to the roundabout near the Kuwaiti Embassy. Lebanese Army […]