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Lebanon's bickering political leaders on Saturday continued Arab-brokered crisis talks in Qatar in a bid to end a long-running feud that drove their country to the brink of a new civil war, with majority leaders insisting confidence-building measures be the first item on the agenda. The talks
Published: Saturday, 17 May, 2008 @ 1:40 PM in Beirut (GMT+2) Doha - Arab-sponsored inter-Lebanese dialogue opened in Qatar Saturday in a bid to end the long-running political crisis that drove the country to the brink of a new civil war after pro- and anti-government supporters fought bloody...
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2008 (AFP) - The United States expressed its support Friday for Arab League-brokered talks aimed at ending Lebanon's political crisis and vowed not to interfere in the negotiations between rival parties. "We are pleased that there is now a process, that the fighting in the...
The warring parties in Lebanon agreed to a deal brokered by Arab diplomats, and incoming flights to Beirut's International airport have resumed ending a week of bloody, political crisis. More than 60 people were killed since violence in Lebanon broke out on May 7, after the government discovered...
It took a brush with national ruin, but the downward spiral of Lebanon's long-running political crisis has at last been halted - and even, however slightly, reversed. Much more will have to take place for the processes of reconciliation and re-stabilization to gather positive momentum, but at...
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt said Friday after visiting his Druze rival, Lebanese Democratic Party head Talal Arslan, that political disputes cannot be resolved through the use of arms. "Resorting to weapons does not yield any solution ... Our only alternative is dialogue,"...
Belmont Club:Caroline Glick at the Jerusalem Post explains how Hezbollah prefers to work through a form of control without governance where it is possible to remain both in power and in opposition. Caroline writes: It only took Hizbullah a week to bring the government of Lebanon to its knees. The...
Mohsen al Attar: Israel cannot have its cake and eat it too Lebanon took an important step towards a more stable future yesterday when the Hizbollah-led opposition and the United States-backed Government reached a deal to end the country's worst violence since the 1975-1990 civil war. The feuding...
Though many Lebanese love their country, and are ready to sacrifice their lives for it, army commander General Michel Sulaiman rose up to yet another challenge as the country's only remaining patriot to preserve its integrity. Sulaiman refused to become a tool and stood his ground not because he...
Less than an hour later, a plane owned by the Lebanese carrier Middle East Airlines landed at the airport, the first commercial flight in a week. At least 81 people were killed in the fighting, triggered by government decisions last week to ban Hezbollah's communications network and fire the...
