Future Movement leader former Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced his endorsement for Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun Thursday in a step that has certainly aroused much speculation on the future proceedings of the presidential bid. Speaking to delegates, officials, ministers and MPs, Hariri announced his decision based on
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I was not prepared for all the lessons I would have to learn; that was the reality of my first job in journalism, which I took up in the summer of 2006. What would become the 33 day war between Lebanon and Israel had just begun, and hundreds of journalists flocked
The northeastern Lebanese border town of al-Qaa bade its final farewell to the five victims killed in Monday’s double suicide attack. Men cried, women wailed, and rice and flowers were thrown over the white coffins that carried Joseph Lewis, Boulous al-Ahmar, Joseph Fares, Faisal Aad and Majed Wahbe to their
Maarouf Hamieh kidnapped and murdered the nephew of Mustapha al-Hujeiri (Abou Taqiyeh) over the grave of his son, Mohammad Hamieh, a Lebanese army soldier, who was gunned down by Nusra Front militants in Arsal almost two years earlier. 22 year-old Hussein al-Hujeiri’s body was found Tuesday riddled with over 30