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Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri waves to his supporters after casting his ballot during municipal elections, outside a voting station in Beirut, Lebanon, May 8, 2016. (AP/Hussein Malla)
November 3, 2016, 2:50 pm
Lebanon’s Hariri to form government, but path tough
Hopes the influential Sunni leader can tackle economic, political challenges likely to be stymied due to differences with Hezbollah
By Sara Hussein
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault meets with the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant at the Maronite Patriarchate in Bekerke north of Beirut, July 12, 2016. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)
July 13, 2016, 10:29 am
Israel fumes at French FM for meeting with Hezbollah officials
Jean-Marc Ayrault urged to follow example of Arab states, which consider the Lebanese militia a terror organization
By Raoul Wootliff
Lebanese politician Michel Aoun in 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)
January 23, 2016, 11:39 am
The mess that is Lebanon
After 18 months of deadlock, the divided country may have a new president. Which won’t heal any rifts
By Avi Issacharoff
The Lebanese flag. (photo credit: Flicker/CC BY 2.0/ Eusebius@Commons)
May 23, 2015, 6:49 am
One year on, still no president for Lebanon
Since May 25, 2104, government has failed 23 times to meet two-thirds quorum required to hold electoral session
By AFP
A Lebanese army soldier uses his binoculars as smoke from Israeli shelling covers the Lebanese town of Al-Majidiyah on the Lebanese border with Israel in the Wazzani area on January 28, 2015. Hezbollah claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an attack against an IDF convoy near the Lebanon border. Photo credit: AFP/ ALI DIA)
January 28, 2015, 6:32 pm
Lebanese rebuke Hezbollah for dragging country into clash
Leaders accuse Shiite group of serving Israel’s political needs after strike on military convoy
By Elhanan Miller
Syrian citizens who live in Lebanon shout slogans and carry a big portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad, as they walk towards to the Syrian Embassy to ballot their vote for their presidential elections, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday May 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)
May 31, 2014, 2:36 am
As Lebanon and Syria become one
Hezbollah’s central role keeping Assad in power has so blurred the borders that it’s hard to think of Lebanon as an independent entity anymore
By Avi Issacharoff
Lebanese President Michel Sleiman waves as he leaves the presidential palace in Baabda on the last day of his presidential mandate, on May 24, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Anwar Amro)
May 30, 2014, 3:33 am
UN pushes for Lebanese presidential vote
Security Council urges Beirut to hold elections amid political deadlock, calls for Lebanese parties to stay out of Syria conflict
By AFP
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman waves as he arrives to give his farewell speech at the end of his six-year term, at the presidential palace, in the Beirut suburb of Baabda, Lebanon, Saturday, May 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
May 24, 2014, 1:59 pm
Fearing power vacuum, Lebanese president wants successor named
Michel Sleiman calls on squabbling politicians to reach consensus over next president as Hezbollah demands sympathetic candidate
By Diaa Hadid
Hezbollah fighters attending a rally in Beirut, Lebanon, November 2011. (photo credit: AP/Bilal Hussein)
May 17, 2014, 9:47 pm
Lebanese president urges Hezbollah to leave Syria
Michel Suleiman completes his six-year term next week
By Bassam Mroue
A screen capture from Hezbollah's al-Manar TV shows Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim movement Hezbollah, giving a televised address from an undisclosed location on March 29, 2014 in Lebanon. (AFP PHOTO/AL-MANAR)
March 29, 2014, 8:52 pm
We don’t want war with Israel, Hezbollah chief says
But Lebanon has plenty of wood for IDF coffins, Nasrallah declares, boasting of Shi’ite group’s improved military capabilities
By ToI Staff
February 26, 2014, 12:07 pm
Hezbollah says it was hit by Israel, vows response
Terror group announces it will ‘choose the right time and place to retaliate’ for reported Israeli strike on Monday near Syrian border
By ToI Staff
Hezbollah fighters hold party flags during a parade in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon (AP/Hussein Malla/File)
February 26, 2014, 10:20 am
Four Hezbollah men said killed in reported Israeli strike
Lebanese president and chief of staff discuss methods of response to ‘aggressions’ attributed to Israel, Daily Star reports
By ToI Staff
A meeting between US President Obama and Lebanese President Michel Sleiman in 2009. (screen capture: Youtube/infomisa)
September 25, 2013, 3:54 am
US to boost financial aid to Lebanon for Syrian refugees
Obama meets President Suleiman; Washington says it will provide an additional $74 million to Beirut
By Stuart Winer
US President Barack Obama, left, listens to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting at the Muqata Presidential Compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, last March (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/File)
September 20, 2013, 11:31 pm
WH confirms: Obama to meet with Abbas in New York
Leaders will discuss recently relaunched peace talks
By AP and ToI Staff
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on March 24, 2011. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)
September 12, 2013, 2:43 pm
Arab daily says Israel behind Russian plan for Syria
Columnists warn that Obama’s face-saving will come at the expense of Syrian lives
By Elhanan Miller
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