The most dangerous and troubling of the terror attacks in the past week in Tunisia Kuwait, France, Egypt and Yemen are probably the Kuwaiti and Egyptian attacks. The bombing of a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City by a young Saudi man and the assassination in Cairo of the Egyptian public prosecutor showed the ease with… اقرأ المزيد
Hasan Lakkis| The Daily Star BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam set a Cabinet session for Thursday, ending three weeks of paralysis that gripped the country’s executive branch due to disagreement over key security appointments. But Salam’s decision did not herald an agreement on the thorny issue, as ministers from the Free Patriotic Movement continue to… اقرأ المزيد
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam is still undecided on whether to call the Cabinet to meet as efforts to make MP Michel Aoun soften his unyielding stance on the issue of security and military appointments have failed, heralding an open-ended government crisis. Salam met with Speaker Nabih Berri Saturday in his latest consultations with… اقرأ المزيد
BEIRUT: Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi and Hezbollah Tuesday traded accusations over who was to blame for leaking the videos that showed police officers torturing Islamist inmates in Roumieh Prison, an episode that has triggered a nationwide scandal over the country’s human rights violations. The renewed war of words between leading Future Movement figure Rifi and Hezbollah, which has become a… اقرأ المزيد
BEIRUT: Top officials moved to contain the fallout from a torture scandal in Lebanon’s Roumieh prison Monday, with Prime MinisterTammam Salam and Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk promising to hold all those involved accountable. Leaked videos surfaced on social media sites over the weekend, showing members of the Internal Security Forces brutally beating Islamist prisoners. The scandal sparked nationwide protests,… اقرأ المزيد
Philip IssaHashem Osseiran| The Daily Star BEIRUT: Five members of the Internal Security Forces are under arrest after videos surfaced showing them severely beating prisoners held in Lebanon’s notorious Roumieh prison as the interior minister vowed to prosecute aggressors. “I assume full responsibility for what occurred,” Nouhad Machnouk told reporters during a news conference Sunday.… اقرأ المزيد