Beirut - Controversy continues between Christian rivals Samir Geagea and Suleiman Franjieh. Michel Aoun denies that his trip to Iran was to raise money for his party's 2009 election campaign.

Beirut - The New York Times reported on Saturday that the United States was providing light arms and new equipment to the Lebanese army, in keeping with its policy of supporting the Lebanese government.

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To live in Lebanon is to be bombarded with trite references about laws being mere suggestions rather than hard-and-fast rules, but Saturday afternoon in Beirut's Gemmayzeh district demonstrated why such habitual disregard is anything but funny. At around 3 p.m.,

A fire broke out Saturday in a building on Gouraud Street in the Beirut neighborhood of Gemmayzeh when the fuel container for the building's power generator exploded. The flames reached cars parked nearby and damaged the building's apartments. According to

Iraq's ancient Christian community has seen its security situation take a sudden turn for the worse in recent weeks, especially in and around the northern city of Mosul. Deadly attacks and threats of more to come have driven thousands of

The United Nations was established, in the aftermath of a devastating war, to help stabilize international relations and give peace a more secure foundation. Amid the threat of nuclear war and seemingly endless regional conflicts, peacekeeping has become an overriding

Iran's Parliament will move in November to impeach Interior Minister Ali Kordan for "dishonesty" after he confessed to holding a fake Oxford University degree, the ISNA news agency said on Sunday. "Kordan will face an impeachment vote on November 4,"

Autocracy in the Arab world is being bolstered by oil wealth and the instability caused by frequent conflicts in the Middle East, researchers have found after conducting a comprehensive two-year study of countries in the region.Academics met at the American

Iran is arming "freedom armies" in the Middle East, according to a top commander of the country's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) quoted on Sunday by a military Web site. "Today, not only our armed forces are self-sufficient but

In its first report about Lebanon since the worsening of the global financial crisis, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) estimated real GDP growth at 4.2 percent in 2008 and revised downward its forecast for 2009 from 4.6 percent to 3.1

It was another turbulent week for the Beirut Stock Exchange as the global financial crisis weighed down on the trading mood of local investors despite the local economy apparent immunity. Consequently, total value and volume dropped by 70 percent and

A senior Israeli military official on Sunday repeated frequent accusations that Syria is arming Hizbullah in violation of a UN Security Council resolution which ended the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon. "Syria has become Hizbullah's arms warehouse," military intelligence

Egypt's deputy intelligence chief arrived in Beirut over the weekend as Prime Minister Fouad Siniora was preparing to head on an official visit to Cairo on Monday. General Omar Qinawy visited President Michel Sleiman at Baabda Palace on Sunday, relaying

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday denied an Iraqi website report that he had been poisoned and then saved by Iranian doctors, calling it "psychological warfare" against his group. "This information is totally unfounded," the head of the resistance

The United States is supplying only light arms and other equipment to the Lebanese Armed Forces, in accordance with its policy of supporting the Lebanese government, The New York Times says. The report said Pentagon and State Department officials were