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The UK announced on Wednesday that it has changed its travel advice to Lebanon. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said in a statement: “We are no longer advising against all but essential travel to Lebanon.” The British Embassy in Beirut updated its Travel Advice to Lebanon, explaining: “We are no longer advising against all but […]

President Michel Suleiman is scheduled to head a meeting of the Lebanese delegation that will travel to New York to agree on an official report on Lebanon’s needs to confront the huge Syria refugee influx. Al-Joumhouria newspaper quoted informed sources as saying Tuesday that the Baabda palace meeting is aimed at putting the final touches […]

At least seven people are dead after as many as three shooters dressed in military style uniforms opened fire in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, police said, spreading fear and chaos across the region as authorities tried to contain the incident. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said in a mid-day news […]

Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi inaugurated on Sunday the first Maronite church in eastern Europe, calling for an end to the confessional conflict in Lebanon and rejecting the political hegemony of one sect on the others. During his sermon at Saint Charbel church in the Romanian capital, al-Rahi said: “We ask for an end to the current […]

It’s not a monument or an elaborate fundraiser, just a personal journey of remembrance. As the 30th anniversary of the deadly Oct. 23, 1983, bombings in Beirut, Lebanon, draws close, former Marine sergeant Paul “Doc” Doolittle is preparing to embark on a 273-mile walk in honor of the peacekeeping Americans killed in the attack. In […]

Perhaps the only bright democratic light in this dark crisis surrounding Syria is the unexpected growth of a cross-border, large-scale and ultimately global denunciation of the follies and horror of war, writes John Keane. Does democracy have anything to do with the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Syria? In recent days, in editorials and columns around […]

The Obama administration has maintained that its response to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons also reflects on the US posture toward Iran. In an address at the New America Foundation on Monday, National Security Advisor Susan Rice made the case, perhaps more emphatically than anyone else in the administration, linking a possible US […]

An agreement reached among the country’s rival leaders last year to steer Lebanon clear of the region’s crises did not deal with the resistance’s arms but should have paved way for the discussion of the national defense strategy, said a Baabda Palace statement on Thursday. The rival leaders from the March 8 and March 14 […]

In a move being cheered by decentralization advocates, Lebanon’s municipalities may soon play a larger role in policing the country. While the idea of local governments sharing the burden of security with the army and the national police force is not new, circumstances on the ground prompted caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel last week to […]