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A man rides a scooter past signs depicting a Lebanese soldier saluting the national flag with the Arabic slogan 'We are all with you' along the highway leading to Beirut International Airport in southern Beirut on September 5, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
September 8, 2025, 1:48 am
Lebanon’s leading Christian party urges Hezbollah to cede its weapons
As terror group resists US-backed effort to disarm, Lebanese Forces party head Samir Geagea warns that ‘a civil war would be even more disastrous’ than recent fighting with Israel
By AFP
Locals shout slogans against Israel soldiers blocking a road leading to their southern Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras, Lebanon, January 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
January 28, 2025, 1:21 am
Lebanon says 2 killed as protests against Israeli presence erupt for a second day
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem slams extension of IDF pullout deadline, says ‘resistance’ not bound by it, as Lebanese Christian politician blames ‘pointless’ deaths on terror group
By Agencies, Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff
Samir Geagea, leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in Maarab east of Beirut, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
May 1, 2024, 12:42 pm
Lebanese Christian leader: Hezbollah’s fighting with Israel harming Lebanon
Samir Geagea calls on the terrorist group to withdraw from the Israeli border area and for the Lebanese army to deploy there instead
By AP and ToI Staff
Samir Geagea, leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party, speaks to an AFP journalist during an interview at his residence in Maarab, north of the capital Beirut, on May 20, 2022. (Joesph Eid/AFP)
May 21, 2022, 4:41 pm
Lebanese Christian leader calls for Hezbollah’s grip on country to end
After bloc led by terror group denied parliamentary majority, Samir Geagea says ‘no one… should be able to transport missiles from one place to another’ without army’s OK
By Layal Abou Rahal
Supporters of Samir Geagea, the leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party, chant slogans as they hold his photo after he declined to show up for questioning over deadly clashes in Beirut earlier this month, outside his residence in Maarab, east of Beirut, Lebanon, October 27, 2021. (Bilal Hussein/AP)
October 27, 2021, 3:46 pm
Lebanese Christian leader dodges court summons over recent Beirut violence
Ex-warloard Samir Geagea had said he wouldn’t show up unless Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is also called in regarding clashes that left seven dead earlier this month
By AFP
Samir Geagea, leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party, enters a hall to meet with his senior party officials, on April 4, 2014, in Maarab, east Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
October 21, 2021, 10:34 pm
Lebanese Christian leader summoned for questioning over Beirut gunbattle
‘I am ready to appear before the judge, on one condition: that Hassan Nasrallah does it before me,’ says Samir Geagea, referring to Hezbollah’s leader
By AFP
Illustrative: In this May 31, 2019 file photo, Hezbollah fighters march at a rally to mark Jerusalem Day or Al-Quds Day, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
October 19, 2021, 12:21 am
Amid civil war fears, Hezbollah chief reveals terror group has 100,000 fighters
In first speech since 7 were killed in gunbattles on Beirut streets, Nasrallah accuses head of a right-wing Christian party of seeking to reignite sectarian violence in Lebanon
By AP
Samir Geagea, the leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party, right, and his wife Strida Geagea, on April 4, 2014 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
July 28, 2020, 7:36 pm
Lebanese Christian party leader blames Hezbollah, allies for crises
Samir Geagea calls for change of leadership, blames terror group for rapidly deteriorating economy and worsening relations with neighboring Arab countries
By Agencies
Women wave signs reading "leave" in Arabic and showing the faces of Lebanon's President Michel Aoun, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, during a protest outside the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut, on October 18, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
October 21, 2019, 10:40 pm
Lebanon’s decades-old political class under fire in protests
Country’s biggest demonstrations in years have focused much of their ire on Lebanese politicians, many of whom, and their relatives, have long called most of the shots
By AFP
Michel Aoun speaks to journalists on October 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
April 12, 2017, 10:41 pm
Lebanon president suspends parliament for 1 month
Move by Michel Aoun intended to prevent legislature from extending its own term, which was set to expire in 2013
By AFP
Michel Aoun speaks to journalists on October 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 31, 2016, 11:31 am
Lebanon parliament set to elect Hezbollah ally as president
After dramatic shift of alliances, Michel Aoun expected to win two-thirds majority vote in legislature, ending 2-year political stalemate
By AFP
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
Lebanese politician Michel Aoun in 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)
January 18, 2016, 9:33 pm
Ending crisis, Hezbollah ally gets nod for Lebanon presidency
After 18-month stalemate, Western- and Saudi-backed politician Samir Geagea backs Michel Aoun for post of ceremonial head of state
By AFP
Samir Geagea speaks to the press on May 29, 2013. (Image capture from YouTube video uploaded by MTVLebanonNews)
July 16, 2015, 4:31 pm
Hack exposes Israeli link to Lebanese leader’s associates
Former Israeli political adviser Mendi Safadi admits to having reached out to people linked to Christian leader Samir Geagea
By Elhanan Miller
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
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