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Kataeb Party leader MP Sami Gemayel meets with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in Bkirki on Friday November 11, 2016. NNA

Lebanon: Kataeb Party Heads Towards Participation in New Government

by Paula Astih | Nov 12, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut-Lebanon’s Kataeb Party will likely become a member of the new government, which Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri is working on forming, a position that would secure the participation of the country’s main parties in the new cabinet months before the...

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A Red Crescent aid worker inspects scattered medical supplies after an airstrike on a medical depot in the rebel-held Tariq al-Bab neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, April 30, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Abdalrhman Ismail 


Free Syrian Army near Al-Bab, Launches 3rd Stage of Euphrates Shield

by Paula Astih | Nov 11, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters taking part in the Euphrates Shield Operation have reached the entrances of al-Bab city, one of the main ISIS strongholds in northern Syria. The terrorist organization has prepared its fighters to confront any FSA...

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Newly elected Lebanese President Michel Aoun (C) takes an oath after he was elected at the Lebanese parliament in downtown Beirut on October 31, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / JOSEPH EID)

Aoun: Lebanon will not go Backwards, State-Building Needs Economic Stability

by Paula Astih | Nov 9, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut: President Michel Aoun said Tuesday “Lebanon will not go backwards,” and asserted that state-building could not be achieved without the necessary plans and projects. “The country’s local situation witnessed a tangible improvement during the last two...

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Christian politician Michel Aoun, right, with Lebanon’s former
prime minister, Saad Hariri, left. PHOTO: REUTERS

Lebanon’s Governments: Partisan, Sectarian and Political Quotas

by Paula Astih | Nov 6, 2016 | Features

Beirut- The workshop launched by the nominated Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri to compose his upcoming cabinet has resembled many other workshops launched by other nominated Prime Ministers who worked on distributing quotas and ministerial portfolios based on sects, and...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) listens to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as they arrive for the opening of the Army-2015 international military forum in Kubinka, outside Moscow, Russia, June 16, 2015. Putin said on Tuesday Russia would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year and a defense official accused NATO of provoking a new arms race. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Tug of War between Moscow, Washington on Syria

by Paula Astih | Nov 2, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- Moscow continues to downplay U.S.-Russia cooperation, offsetting any efforts on drafting a political solution for the crisis in Syria. “The prospects for the start of a negotiation process and the return to peaceful life in Syria are postponed for an...