Two powerful blasts rocked Damascus killing and wounding dozens of people during morning rush hour Thursday, state television said, as U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon warned of a looming civil war in Syria. "Two explosions caused by terrorists took place on the freeway in the south of Damascus," the television said, adding that the blasts […]

  Defense lawyers before the U.N.-backed court probing former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri’s murder sought Wednesday to have the tribunal’s creation declared illegal and unfit to judge their clients. Lawyers for Salim Ayyash — one of four men wanted for trial in connection with Hariri’s car bomb death in 2005 — asked "the trial chamber to […]

  The United States is determined to increase pressure on Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad to make him stand down, the US envoy to the United Nations said Tuesday. "The situation in Syria remains dire, especially for the millions who continue to endure daily attacks and are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance," ambassador Susan Rice told […]

    The Future bloc on Tuesday said that Hezbollah was still using its weapons to intimidate the Lebanese people. “Hezbollah is still using its weapons… to intimidate the Lebanese people and impose its political, social and economic domination,” the bloc said in a statement following its weekly meeting. The statement also said that “the crime […]

  Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi reiterated on Tuesday his call on Lebanese expatriates to “swiftly register their spouses and children in the Lebanese embassies and consulates in order to obtain their home country’s nationality.” “The Lebanese embassies and consulates in Canada are cooperating to register the wife and children (of Lebanese nationals) in Lebanon,” al-Rahi said […]

  Unknown individuals on Monday kidnapped the pastor of Baalbek’s Our Lady of Good Help Church, Father Walid Gharious, aka Father Elias Maroun Gharious, on the Baalbek road near the intersection leading to the town of al-Ansar, state-run National News Agency reported. The priest was driving his Toyota Avanza when the abductors who were in two […]

  Gunmen in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Monday shot dead a Lebanese man and his Nigerian driver and abducted another Lebanese national, the state police spokesman said. "The gunmen attacked the construction bus in which they were traveling, shot dead a Lebanese and the Nigerian driver and kidnapped another Lebanese," Aminu Lawan told Agence France […]

  اكد البطريرك الماروني مار بشاره بطرس الراعي اننا في "لبنان في حاجة الى قانون انتخابي جديد يحترم حرية المواطن في اختيار الشخص الذي يريد والذي يرى فيه الكفاءة والاخلاص للوطن"، واصف السجال الذي حصل بين النواب في الايام الاخيرة في المجلس النيابي ب"المخجل"، ومبديا اسفه "للمستوى الذي وصل اليه النواب في كلامهم وتفكيرهم". كلام […]

    Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri is expected to make a “fiery speech” on Sunday afternoon during a Mustaqbal movement rally in downtown Beirut to commemorate Martyrs’ Day and the events of May 7, 2008, reported al-Mustaqbal daily on Sunday. Informed circles said that he will highlight the importance and “fatefulness” of the 2013 parliamentary […]