Hasan Lakkis| The Daily Star BEIRUT: The government passed a series of thorny items on its agenda Wednesday, in an unexpectedly productive Cabinet session which also saw a deal for further meetings to finish study of the 2015 draft budget. The Cabinet approved the specifications book for the bidding of contracts currently held by alfa and… اقرأ المزيد
| The Daily Star President Bashar Assad’s regime is beginning to crumble despite assistance from Iran and its allies. However, such a prospect did not prevent the recent liquidation of Rustom Ghazaleh, once the head of Syria’s military intelligence network in Lebanon. The Syrian regime’s loss of Idlib and Busra al-Sham in recent weeks, followed… اقرأ المزيد
Hussein Dakroub| The Daily Star BEIRUT: Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri warned Monday that Lebanon was threatened with a renewal of civil war unless rival Lebanese factions acted to elect a president and fight religious extremism. Speaking during a talk at the Wilson Center in Washington as part of his current visit to the United… اقرأ المزيد
Although it has become common knowledge by now that neither of Lebanon’s two main candidates to the presidential election – Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea – is, at this point, capable of garnering an absolute majority of votes in Parliament to be elected as the new… اقرأ المزيد
The Daily Star BEIRUT: Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri is expected to meet U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Friday on the fourth day of his visit to the U.S., where he is holding a series of meetings with American officials to garner support for Lebanon. Hariri’s several-day trip, which began Tuesday, comes at a time… اقرأ المزيد
BEIRUT: Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri called Wednesday after talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for the Saudi-led “Decisive Storm” military operation in Yemen to shift to Syria to remove the regime of President Bashar Assad for killing its people. The head of the Future Movement also lashed out at Iran for meddling… اقرأ المزيد