Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri's media office has denied reports suggesting that Berri had requested Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam to present the cabinet formation for feedback. The office confirmed that the claims were entirely false.
Lebanon’s prime minister-designate has vowed to rebuild the country following years of economic meltdown and a 14-month war between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group.
By decimating Hezbollah, weakening Iran, and indirectly contributing to Bashar Assad’s ouster in Syria, Israel has gifted Lebanon with an opportunity to reclaim its sovereignty. Whether Lebanon can seize this moment will be tested on Thursday when its Parliament convenes for the 13th time in over two years to attempt to elect a new president.
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri will meet Friday with Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam, a day after non-binding consultations boycotted by Amal and ally Hezbollah. Berri told LBCI that he doubts that Amal and Hezbollah's MPs would
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Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Saturday called on the Lebanese state to “deal firmly” with Israeli violations. Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire in a conflict parallel to the Gaza war in November.
French President Emmanuel Macron held a bilateral meeting Friday at the Baabda Palace with Speaker Nabih Berri, the National News Agency said. The meeting tackled the issue of the new government and Berri promised Macron that there will
The Lebanese parliament Thursday elected Army Chief Joseph Aoun as the new president, ending more than two years of a political deadlock that had left the country without a head of state. According to house speaker Nabih Berri,
It is the second such pullout since a Nov 27 ceasefire, and came after United Nations peacekeepers and Lebanon’s prime minister late last month called on the Israeli army to speed up its withdrawal from Lebanon’s south.
The Biden administration in its final days is shifting more than $100 million in military aid from Israel and Egypt to Lebanon as it tries to bolster a ceasefire agreement it helped mediate between Israel and Hezbollah.
It is time to begin a new chapter of justice and security. Reconstruction is not merely a promise but a duty,’ Nawaf Salam says - Anadolu Ajansı
French President Emmanuel Macron promised his Lebanese presidential counterpart Joseph Aoun that ‘France will remain by your side” as he pledged financial aid to help rebuild Lebanon while also