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War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Israel - Hezbollah War 2006. Photo from The L.A. Times From Commentary Magazine: Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport,...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is not that there is no racism in the West, or in the US, in particular. But the fake culture of PC talk, has made blatant sexist and racism speech unacceptable socially or legally in some instances. In Lebanon, there are no restraints. Samir Franjiyyah is considered part of the Left of the March 14 Movement, and he never ever mentions Lebanon without saying: we are not the Congo, or we are not...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beirut - Six Saudis facing terrorism charges in Lebanon will briefly return to their home country at the request of the Saudi government, a Lebanese judicial source said Friday. The men allegedly participated in bloody gunfights with the Lebanese arm...
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hassan Nasrallah was re-elected head of Hezbollah on Thursday following a congress that also adopted a new manifesto, which is to be revealed in coming days, the militant Shiite party announced.
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Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport, and the Dimona nuclear-power plant. I dismissed his claim as a wild boast last...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Lebanese first investigative judge issued an arrest warrant against al-Qaida inspired Fatah al-Islam member Fadi Ghassan Ibrahim, for his involvement with bomb attacks and the formation of terrorist cells, the official National News Agency reported Thursday. The arrest warrant was issued after Ibrahim and nine other Fatah al-Islam members were interrogated by judge Fadi Sawwan for four hours on Thursday....
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
BEIRUT: Officials from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) tasked with prosecuting suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri visited Lebanon last week, the court’s Defense Office said Wednesday. François Roux, head of the Defense Office, and his team visited Lebanon to meet with Lebanese lawyers, academics and other members of civil society to brief them...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
BEIRUT: As the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child marks its 20th anniversary Friday, the head of United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in Lebanon said he is encouraged by the country’s dedication to protecting younger citizens. With 193 ratifications, the convention is the most widely upheld international human-rights treaty in history. Its 54 provisions lay out the civil, political, cultural,...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
BEIRUT: Figures released by the central bank of Lebanon show that the number of credit and debit cards issued in Lebanon reached 1.61 million cards at the end of September 2009, constituting a 1.3 percent decrease from end-June 2009, a 2.7 percent rise in the first 9 months of the year and a 4.2 percent rise on a yearly basis, as reported by Lebanon This Week, the economic publication of the Byblos...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Yesterday, three workers died in Lebanon. One Egyptian worker suffocated, and a Syrian worker "fell from a tree", and the dead body of an Egyptian worker was found in his room.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Freelance writer was kidnapped at gunpoint in 1985 while writing about Palestinian refugees for the UN British investigators in Lebanon may be poised to solve a 25-year-old murder mystery after finding human remains believed to be of the journalist Alec Collett. Collett, a freelance writer, was kidnapped at gunpoint in 1985 while working on an article for the United Nations about Palestinian refugees...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Comrade Khalid on Lebanon's privatization plans.
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
So according to Michael Husayn Young, the well-known expert on offshoots , the Israeli destruction of Lebanon in 2006 was actually limited due to American humane intervention: " Lest we forget, the scope of Israeli destruction in 2006, though enormous, was contained by the Americans, mainly to avoid discrediting the Siniora government."
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THE TENSION (Free subscription) | yesterday
D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2009 -- Iraqi security forces arrested five suspected members of the al-Qaida in Iraq and the Islamic State of Iraq terrorist groups today during three combined security operations conducted with U.S. advisors in the Iraqi cities of Ramadi, Tikrit and Kirkuk, military officials reported. Iraqi forces and U.S. advisors searched two buildings in Ramadi...
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
The school dropout rate among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is alarmingly high with 50 percent of 17-year-olds and 40 percent of 16-year-olds receiving no education, UN officials warned on Friday. "We are sounding the alarm that the dropout rate is too high among school-aged children from the intermediary to the high school level," said Ray Virgilio Torres, head of the UN Children's Fund...
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patrickguillard | 04/27/2009
During the next legislative elections scheduled for June 7 the European Union will send an observer mission in Lebanon The EU EOM will consist of some 90 observers and will be led by Mr José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Member of the European Parliament, who also led the previous EU EOM to Lebanon in 2005. This mission represents a further contribution by the European Commission to strengthening...
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patrickguillard | 04/27/2009
During the next legislative elections scheduled for June 7 the European Union will send an observer mission in Lebanon The EU EOM will consist of some 90 observers and will be led by Mr José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Member of the European Parliament, who also led the previous EU EOM to Lebanon in 2005. This mission represents a further contribution by the European Commission to strengthening...
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nadias | 02/21/2009
By Daily.pk The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli intelligence - Mossad - have infiltrated Muslim organizations like Hamas in Palestine, Hizbullah in Lebanon and the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in Indonesia, says an Indonesian intelligence expert. “It is clear that the CIA and the Mossad have infiltrated such organizations and have done much more than [...] readmore
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