BEIRUT: A deal was reached Monday night to end a severe garbage crisis which has choked residents of Beirut and Mount Lebanon over the past week, clearing the...
BEIRUT: The government faces a make-or-break week following threats by Prime Minister Tammam Salam to step down if no solution is found to the problem of the...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet once again failed to agree on a decision-making mechanism Thursday, and was unable to propose an immediate solution to the garbage crisis,...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet meets Thursday to discuss a row over its decision-making system and also address the crisis over garbage collection amid fears of a new...
BEIRUT: Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea praised Saudi Arabia Sunday for supporting Lebanon’s stability after meeting Saudi King Salman in Jeddah,...
BEIRUT: No signs have so far emerged of a breakthrough in the crisis over the Cabinet’s decision-making mechanism, ministerial sources in the Free...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam said Sunday he would adhere to consensus as the government’s decision-making mechanism, but stressed that he would...
BEIRUT: A stormy Cabinet session ended Thursday with a compromise that allowed Prime Minister Tammam Salam to pass one agenda item relating to funds to public...
BEIRUT: The Lebanese Cabinet is set for a heated confrontation Thursday over security appointments and the decision-making mechanism of the executive branch...
The Free Patriotic Movement’s preparations to stage anti-government street demonstrations are proceeding at an accelerating rate, but the zero hour will...
BEIRUT: More divisions emerged when Cabinet convened its first session in a month Thursday, with MP Michel Aoun threatening undeclared measures after the...
Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun has always been fond of utilizing polls to determine election results, an FPM lawmaker told The Daily Star. Some...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam set a Cabinet session for Thursday, ending three weeks of paralysis that gripped the country’s executive branch due...
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...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam will not set a Cabinet session for next week, sources said Tuesday, a day after the premier stated that he was adamant...
BEIRUT: The Future Movement is considering visiting March 8 officials to discuss a means to end the Cabinet impasse and protect the northeastern town of Arsal...
BEIRUT: With lawmakers failing to elect a president 24 times over the past year, Parliament chose another way Tuesday to help ease the deadlock: prayers. With...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s influential Druze leader sought Friday to placate his fellow countrymen in Syria, two days after a deadly attack by Syria’s...
Politicians were divided over Prime Minister Tammam Salam’s visit to the Defense Ministry in Yarze, which occurred against the backdrop of Gen. Michel...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam will not call for a Cabinet session this week in order to give mediators time to resolve a crisis over the thorny issue of...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Cabinet plunged into paralysis Thursday as it failed to agree on the thorny issue of security appointments, deepening the...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet Monday discussed the thorny issue of security and military appointments amid warnings that failure to resolve the dispute over the border...
BEIRUT: A special envoy of Pope Francis arrived in Beirut Friday in the Vatican’s latest attempt to resolve a political crisis that has left Lebanon...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Army Commander Gen. Jean Kahwagi assured the public Thursday that political bickering over security appointments would not affect the...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet is set to hold a stormy session Thursday amid sharp differences among ministers over the issue of security appointments and how to deal...