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Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri (L) attend the first meeting of the new cabinet at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon January 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Future Bloc: Bassil-Moallem Meeting is an Attempt to Annex Lebanon to Iranian, Syrian Axis

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 27, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut– The Future Movement’s parliamentary bloc led by Prime Minister Saad Hariri warned of attempts to trap Lebanon into the Iranian-Syrian alliance. The bloc criticized what it described as “unilateral steps” made by Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil through his...

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Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil gestures after an interview with Reuters at his office in Beirut September 10, 2015. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi

Lebanon: ‘Political Weariness’ due to Normalization with Syrian Regime

by Paula Astih | Sep 26, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut- The Lebanese government is facing a chain of challenges that are seriously threatening its stability for the first time. Major challenges are the economic file and the obvious push of 8 March alliance towards normalization with the Syrian regime. Days after...

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Nohad al-Machnouq, Lebanese Minister of Interior and Municipalities

Opinion: Nohad Mashnouq Slams Saudi Arabia

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jun 8, 2016 | Opinion

Just because his movement lost in the latest municipal elections, he refuted Saudi Arabia’s history and major role it has played in his country during the past 10 years! It is hard to believe that this person is Nohad Mashnouq, the Lebanese Minister of Interior and...

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Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport

Two Beirut Airport Employees Detained Over Terror Links

by Nazeer Rida | Apr 11, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- Lebanese authorities announced that Rafic Hariri Airport’s security apparatus in Beirut detained two Lebanese employees of a Beirut airport service company on Friday over contacts with “terrorist groups”. An official Lebanese source told Asharq Al-Awsat that...

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Nine Network Australia, which was involved in documenting the kidnap of two children from Dahieh in Beirut

Australian TV Crew Detained for Kidnapping Two Children in Beirut

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 8, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- A family dispute was transformed into an international problem as Australians, who participated in abducting two Lebanese-Australian children to return them to their mother, were detained in Lebanon. Hours after abducting the two Al-Amin children from Beirut’s...