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Topic: Beirut

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March 17, 2013
6:08 pm

Anti-Syrian regime protesters in Aleppo, Syria, Friday March 15, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Syrian opposition: 12 nominated for prime minister

A spokesman for the National Coalition says candidates are mostly technocrats and experts in economics and business

March 15, 2013
5:25 pm

A Syrian fuel tanker which was set on fire late Thursday by anti-Syrian regime protesters, Friday March 15, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo)

Syrian rebel chief: ‘We will not give up’

Salim Idris, the head of the FSA Supreme Military Council, calls on soldiers to join in a ‘fight for freedom and democracy’

March 1, 2013
5:37 pm

Free Syrian Army fighters at the front line of Maarat al-Nuaman town, Syria, Tuesday February 26, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Syrian rebels ‘desperately’ need arms, says leader

Opposition chief of staff says aid packages of food supplies and bandages won’t help the fighters beat Assad’s troops

By Zeina Karam

February 28, 2013
7:56 pm

Free Syrian Army fighters at Jabal al-Zaweya, in Idlib province, Syria. February 27, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syrian opposition postpones meeting to choose PM

The Syrian National Coalition has struggled to agree on a leadership for the transitional administration since being formed last year

February 27, 2013
12:17 am

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah waves to supporters in southern Beirut, September 17 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Second report claims Nasrallah sick, being treated in Iran

Other sources claim Hezbollah leader wounded by Syrian rebels; his organization says he’s in Lebanon and fine

By Times of Israel staff

February 21, 2013
12:18 am

Illustrative photo of Lebanese Army soldiers patrolling during October clashes between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime, in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli (photo credit: AP/Bilal Hussein)

Judge indicts Lebanese, Syrian officials in bomb plot

Charges state that former minister moved explosives from Syria to Lebanon in his personal car

February 6, 2013
9:16 pm

The late Col. Muammar Gaddafi (photo credit: Jesse B. Awalt/Wikimedia Commons)

Deposing despots doesn’t eliminate corruption, group says

Secretive security agencies said to prevent transparency in post-revolutionary Middle East states

January 29, 2013
12:23 am

Two injured in Beirut car bombing

Blast occurs near Amal militia building, in Hezbollah stronghold

January 26, 2013
4:51 pm

Lebanon reportedly arrests ‘Israeli spy’

Local media says Beirut man allegedly worked with Israeli intelligence for over a decade

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 19, 2012
10:22 pm

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, a former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, died on Wednesday at age 68 (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

The unflappable commander: Amnon Lipkin-Shahak’s battle in Beirut

Under fire in the Lebanese capital in 1973, with one man dead and another dying, the IDF chief who passed away on Wednesday nonetheless completed his mission — and won the second of ‘the medals they give you when something’s gone wrong’

By Mitch Ginsburg

November 12, 2012
11:33 pm

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah speaking in July via video feed (image capture from Al Manar News video)

Nasrallah touts lack of IDF response to drone as sign of Hezbollah’s might

Lebanese Shiite leader says new reality deterring ‘Zionists’; blasts Arab League for silence on Gaza

By Ilan Ben Zion

November 4, 2012
1:36 pm

French President Francois Hollande (photo credit: Lionel Cironneau/AP)

France committed to Lebanese stability, Hollande says

French president visits Beirut in wake of bombing that killed top intelligence official last month

November 3, 2012
11:26 pm

A Lebanese man in an underground bunker used by Hezbollah to fight Israel, located in the Mleeta village, south Lebanon. It now acts as a Hezbollah war museum. It shows Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the posters hanging on the wall. (photo credit: AP photo, FILE)

Despite setbacks for siding with Syrian regime, Hezbollah’s hold in Lebanon is tight

Even its critics say Shi’ite group still has the weapons, money, and support of the Lebanese government it needs

By Karin Laub

October 28, 2012
12:51 am

Anti-government protesters in central Beirut on October 24. (photo credit: AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

Lebanese PM says he won’t step down after bombing

Najib Mikati had hinted at resignation following assassination of top intel official

October 23, 2012
2:12 pm

Lebanese Army soldiers remove garbage containers used as a roadblock after overnight clashes between Sunni and Shiite gunmen in Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday, October 22, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Ahmad Omar)

Calm returns to Lebanon as troops deploy

Beiruit streets quiet two days after funeral of slain general

By Bassem Mroue

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