Beirut / Jerusalem : The Israeli prisoner swap with Hezbollah could go ahead in two weeks if the Lebanese militia provides a report on the fate of an Israeli airman who went missing in Lebanon in 1986, officials said on

Beirut - Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt expressed concern over a possible deal being prepared at the expense of Lebanon and the international tribunal.

Beirut- Lebanon's Democratic Gathering leader MP Walid Jumblatt has reportedly threatened to reconsider his tentative approval of giving up the telecommunications ministry in the new cabinet.

Beirut - The Mufti of Tripoli and North Lebanon Sheikh Malik Shaar expressed his worry that the temporary calm between Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen were in fact no more than a truce.

Beirut- Mo'een Hamzeh head of the Bhannes Center for Seismic and Scientific Research said Lebanon could face an earthquake similar to the one that hit Lebanon in 1956 and resulted in the death of hundreds of people and the destruction

Beirut - The army command on Monday urged troops to safeguard their unity by disregarding media agitation. The command, in a release to troops, said some factions harmed by the atmosphere of reconciliation and entente that followed recent violence, especially

Families of Lebanese prisoners held in Israeli jails have started preparing for the return of their loved ones following the Israeli Cabinet's approval a prisoner swap on Sunday. Mohammad Abdel Hamid Srour's 60-year-old mother Sobhieh has been waiting for her

Lebanon's National Council for Scientific Research denied on Monday Israeli reports that a large-scale earthquake could soon rock Lebanon and parts of the Jewish state, saying that it was "impossible" to predict such seismic activity. The council's secretary general, Mouein

The saga over distributing portfolios in Lebanon's new cabinet continued on Monday as President Michel Sleiman was reported to have initiated fresh efforts to break the logjam. As the crisis persisted, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was reported to have left

Telephone signals in South Lebanon have been subject to at least three types of network interference, the director general of the Telecommunications Ministry said Monday at an assembly called by the municipal council in the Southern district of Khiam.

A decade ago, it was a glittering vision - a scheme to lure nature lovers to the Lebanese highlands, providing income to local people, nurturing the country's damaged environment and cementing national unity in one stroke. Today, after a war,

Around 100 Lebanese high-school students and their parents gathered at the US Embassy on Sunday for a barbeque in honor of the 2008 winners of the Lebanese Youth Exchange and Study (YES) scholarship. Charge d' Affaires Michele Sison offered words

Beirut- The formation of the government issue took the back stage on Sunday . During the day time the main focus was the Israeli cabinet vote on the prisoner exchange deal with Hezbollah and during the evening it was the

It is no secret that Lebanon is largely split along sectarian lines: The 1975-1990 Civil War, recent clashes and our current system of government are all testaments to that fact. However, since the assassination of Rafik Hariri in 2005, the

The Israeli Cabinet gave its green light Sunday for a prisoner exchange with Hizbullah, even though two soldiers captured by the resistance two years ago are assumed by Israeli officials to be dead. Twenty-two of the 25 Cabinet members voted

A publishing house specialized in military matters reported that commercially available satellite imagery shows Syrian troops deployed on Lebanese territory along the border in early 2008, just ahead of Israel's largest ever military drill. The report, published in Jane's Defense

Rival Lebanese factions have reportedly failed to reach a deal on the distribution of portfolios in the new cabinet following reports of a possible rapprochement between Priem Minister-designate Fouad Siniora and Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader MP Michel Aoun that

Hizbullah denied on Sunday accusations that it is maintaining an armed presence stretching across the Mount Lebanon range, after Phalange leader and former President Amin Gemayel said that such a presence exists. "Some leaders of the March 14 coalition have

The Ottoman-style mansions, with Venetian windows, arches and lavish gardens that once epitomized Beirut are being leveled one after the other as high-rises mushroom across the capital. "Now everyone is looking for towers, because they realize that above the 10th