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President Aoun at the Baabda Presidential Palace on Monday receives a delegation of the executive committee of Middle East Churches/ NNA

Lebanon: Ball in Aoun’s Court to Solve Electoral Law Issue

by Paula Astih | Jan 17, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut – Most political groups had thrown the ball of the electoral law in the court of Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun after signs reflecting the size of difficulties surrounding the file. Political forces are divided between two camps: the first supports a law...

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Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri. Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraqi Court Releases Jabouri

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 10, 2016 | Middle East

Baghdad-Hours after the parliamentary vote to strip Iraq’s Speaker Salim al-Jabouri of his immunity, Iraq’s Higher Judicial Council dropped charges against him and closed the case. Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Judge Abdul Sattar Bayraqdar said in a statement on...

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Lebanese army soldiers stand guard near the Bilal bin Rabbah mosque where Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir preaches, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Opinion: Countdown to the destruction of Lebanon begins

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jul 5, 2013 | Opinion

It was remarkable how Nabih Berri, the speaker of the Lebanese parliament, announced that “reports about creating a vacuum in the first presidency (the presidency of the republic) at the hands of the second presidency (the speakership of the parliament) are not true,”...