The cabinet is not likely to be formed before the end of the month due to problematic issues regarding the distribution of ministerial portfolios, a prominent governmental source The Daily Star on Tuesday. "Although progress has been made concerning the

A letter sent by the Lebanese Foreign Ministry to United Nations said the explosions which took place in the southern town of Khirbet Silim earlier this month were due to "a fire breaking out in an abandoned building that housed

The guiding objectives behind Israel’s spy network in Lebanon were to "destroy" the Hizbullah-led resistance and kill its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, As-Safir newspaper quoted well-informed sources as saying on Tuesday. Though Israeli spy operations first emerged shortly after Tel

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah personally tasked the head of the Hizbullah cell in Egypt to carry out attacks in the country, pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat reported Tuesday. The newspaper, based on records of investigations, said Nasrallah ordered the leader of the network,

Marada Movement leader MP Sleiman Franjieh said Tuesday the current stands of his rival Lebanese Forces (LF) boss Samir Geagea were positive and "likely to lead to reconciliation between our two parties." Franjieh commented on his Sunday meeting with Phalange

Tensions ran high in south Lebanon Tuesday after Israel moved four Merkava tanks from the Arqoub region and deployed them 100 meters from the Hassan Gate in the occupied Kfar Shuba Hills region. The tanks’ redeployment was accompanied by Israeli

Almost as many donkeys as trucks will be used to take ballot papers to remote areas of Afghanistan for next month’s presidential election, which the UN chief envoy said on Tuesday was the most complicated he’d ever seen. UN Special

Nigeria’s president placed security forces on maximum alert after two days of battles with radical Islamists in the north which witnesses and authorities said Tuesday had left more than 150 dead. While authorities have so far confirmed the death of

A verdict in the trial of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will come on Friday, a court official said, after her lawyers wrapped up their final arguments in the widely condemned case against her on security charges. The

A boat carrying Haitian migrants capsized and sank off the Turks and Caicos Islands and up to 85 people are missing, the US Coast Guard said Tuesday. One survivor said the boat struck a reef as it tried to elude

Pakistani security forces fighting Taliban militants in and around the Swat Valley have rescued nearly a dozen boys brainwashed into becoming suicide bombers, according to officials. A senior security officer in North West Frontier Province said nine boys were found

Four Yemeni soldiers were killed and another wounded when armed men attacked a checkpoint in the restive south Tuesday, a security official said. The official said the identity of the perpetrators was not clear. The attack took place on the

Efforts to free two women aid workers from Ireland and Uganda kidnapped by gunmen in Sudan’s Darfur almost a month ago are "ongoing," officials said on Tuesday. A gang of armed men kidnapped Irish national Sharon Commins and Ugandan Hilda

Police order a lingerie shop to hide its scantily clad mannequins. A judge warns female lawyers to wear headscarves in court. Beach patrols break up groups of singles and make men wear shirts. It’s all part of a new Hamas

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to meet the president of Somalia’s transitional government during a seven-nation trip to Africa next week, the State Department said on Monday. Clinton will become the highest-ranking US official to meet Somali President

Turkey on Tuesday urged Iraq and the United States for "concrete results" on the ground in efforts to curb separatist Kurdish rebels taking refuge in northern Iraq. "We have more expectations. We expect concrete results," Interior Minister Besir Atalay told

At least 150 people were wounded in clashes on Tuesday when the Iraqi army stormed the base of Iran’s main armed exiled opposition, police and sources within the camp said. According to an Iraqi police source in Diyala Province, where

Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian said Tuesday that he will not accept an invitation to visit neighboring Turkey unless Ankara takes "real steps" at mending fraught ties. As part of recent efforts aimed at ending decades of enmity between the two

UN agencies and two dozen international aid groups urged Israel on Tuesday to lift its blockade of Gaza or at least allow in construction materials to repair war-damaged schools. Out of the Gaza Strip’s 640 schools, 18 were flattened and

Monaco has tabled a formal proposal to place overfished Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna on the list of the world’s most endangered species a move that could ban all trade of the fish. According to a draft proposal released on