BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon has been unable to elect a new president since Michel Aoun left office in October 2022. France sought to mediate between Lebanese political forces, sending its envoy Jean Yves Le Drian twice to the country in a bid to end the deadlock. The efforts, however, did not yield any results. […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon has announced that its security forces arrested a suspected gunman involved in last week’s shooting attack on the US Embassy in Beirut. In a statement, the Directorate of Internal Security Forces (ISF) said a 26-year-old man was arrested in the southern Beirut suburb of Al-Kafa’at. The suspect admitted to o...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati warned on Thursday about further negative effects of the Syrian migrant crisis in his country and urged the international community to produce a sustainable solution. Mikati’s remarks came during his speech in New York at the UN General Assembly 78th session, acc...
BEIRUT (AA) – Unidentified gunmen opened fire outside the US Embassy in Beirut late on Wednesday, but there were no injuries, the mission said on Thursday. Embassy spokesman Jake Nelson said in a statement that the incident took place at 10.37 p.m. local time (1937GMT) in the vicinity of the embassy entrance, and involved the […]
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese government continued to remain silent Thursday over Israeli allegations that Iran and Hezbollah are building an airport in southern Lebanon to be used for launching cross-border attacks against targets in Israel. Hezbollah has declined to issue a statement. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed M...
ANKARA (AA) – The Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups late Wednesday demanded an immediate halt to fighting in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, state media reported. According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, the call by the two groups were announced during a meeting between the leader of the Islamic Jihad group [&h...
ANKARA (AA) – The death toll from renewed clashes between Palestinian armed groups in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon has reached 15 after a week of clashes, local media reported on Thursday. According to the National News Agency, the clashes which erupted last week between the Fatah movement and a rival Islamist [&hel...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Clashes renewed on Saturday between Palestinian Fatah movement and rival armed groups at the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon, local sources said. Sounds of gunfire and shells were heard early Saturday inside the camp, according to a reporter at the scene. The violence erupted shortly after the fighting groups had [...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – A cease-fire agreement between warring Palestinian groups in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon was reached a day after an armed conflict that left 20 people injured, a source close to the latest developments said late Friday. A source from the Palestinian Hamas group told Anadolu, on condition of [&helli...
Sidon, Lebanon – AFP Clashes broke out late Thursday in a restive Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon that was rocked by deadly fighting just weeks ago, an AFP correspondent said. The fighting in the Ain al-Helweh camp once again pitted members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement against Islamists, a source...
