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Leaders of Lebanon’s U.S.-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition have left for the highest level talks since the country’s political crisis began 18 months ago.
The Hezbollah-led opposition and U.S.-backed government reached a deal Thursday to end Lebanon’s worst violence since the 1975-90 civil war, now that the Cabinet has reversed measures aimed at reining in the Iranian-backed militants.
Hezbollah has proven it can force Lebanon’s U.S.-backed government to cave in on key issues. But the Shiite militant group’s power is not absolute _ the government is still in place and Hezbollah has lost support among the people by turning its guns on them.
The Hezbollah-led opposition and U.S.-backed government agreed Thursday to hold political talks that will lead to the election of Lebanon’s army chief as president, an Arab mediator said.
An Arab mediator says Hezbollah has agreed to hold talks with the government and remove a roadblock that has shut down the airport for a week.
Hezbollah’s deputy leader Sheik Naim Kassem says the group will “return things” to normal after the government reversed key decisions that had triggered days of conflict.
The U.S.-backed Cabinet on Wednesday reversed measures against the militant Hezbollah movement that set off Lebanon’s worst violence since the 1975-90 civil war.
A Lebanese minister says the Cabinet has reversed measures against Hezbollah militants that triggered the worst violence since the country’s 15-year civil war.
The Lebanese army expanded its troop deployment to several tense areas around the country Tuesday, saying its soldiers would use force if needed to impose order after clashes between the U.S.-backed government and Hezbollah-led opposition.
Fighting between pro- and anti-government factions jumped to Lebanon’s north Monday, but a grim calm hung over the nearly empty streets of Beirut _ a capital crippled by roadblocks, suspicion and fear.
Iran has won the first round of its proxy war against America in the streets of Beirut. Hezbollah gunmen flaunting their snipers have become the norm and the Lebanese government condemnations have been reduced to mere symbolism. Shias, it seems, are...
A member of the Lebanese parliament was assassinated in a bomb attack that ripped through his car near the popular waterfront in the Lebanese capital on Wednesday, killing nine other people.
The slain lawmaker, Walid Eido, was a vocal anti- Syrian...
Lebanon’s interior minister Hassan al-Sabaa said Tuesday that the four Syrians arrested by Lebanon have confessed to bombing two buses in Lebanon last month. The men belonged to a small Palestinian group and had received orderes from Syrian...
These leaflets were supposedly dropped by Israel in Lebanon reports Beirutlive. The Israeli Army seems to be fighting physically with Hezbollah and trying to influence psychology of Lebanese about Hezbollah the way Israel see it.
However,...
A newly born Lebanese boy has been named Ra’ad, the long-range missile that Hezbollah is firing at Haifa. In fact, the mother of the boy wanted to honor the Shiite group’s showdown with Israel. May be it is a reflection of a normal citizen of...
A Lebanese man sits under posters of Imam Moussa al-Sadr, upper right, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Shiite aligned with the opposition, upper left, and Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 16, 2008. For...
