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Less than two weeks after a United Nations report condemned Lebanon’s lack of progress in addressing human trafficking, the UN Security Council has declared that the nation has also failed to make any “tangible progress” in disarming militias. Mr. Terje Roed-Larsen, Special Envoy to the Secretary General, warned that “The violence that erupted in Lebanon [...]
Investigations are ongoing in Lebanon to determine if 21 alleged followers of Islamic preacher Fathi Yakan were the same men recruited by the Islamic Action Front and sent to a Hezbollah training camp. There have been reports that IAF supporters and partisans have been sent to join these Hezbollah training facilities. Security agents reported a [...]
For the first time in over two years, Hezbollah and Sunni leaders met in Lebanon in order to address the issue of reconciliation between the two groups. Hezbollah’s Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah and Sunni leader Saad Hariri met Sunday to discuss the path towards peace and unity, issuing a joint statement that emphasized “an affirmation of [...]
Lebanese political group Hezbollah has denied Iraqi reports that its leader, Hassan Nassrallah, was poisoned by Israel in a blotched assassination attempt last week. The report, published by Iraqi news web site, Almalaf, stated that Israel poisoned Nasrallah last week and that Iranian doctors had to rush to Lebanon in an attempt to save his [...]
Saad Hariri, Lebanon’s Al Mustaqbal Movement leader, declared that Beirut would now be free of Hezbollah arms. In a news story that broke early this morning in Lebanon, Hariri made an announcement to an Iftar banquet that he had made significant progress in his meeting with Hezbollah representatives. There were no pardons given; the focus [...]
With Ehud Olmert’s resignation finalized, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni began forming her new government immediately in hopes of becoming Israel’s second female prime minister. Mark Lavie writing in in the Washington Post, mentions that Olmert was suffering from terrible approval ratings that almost reached single digits and Israelis did not want him representing their [...]
The Economist has detailed one correspondent’s experiences traveling through different parts of Lebanon. The Lebanese are currently struggling with the division between the nation’s Christians and Muslims. Hezbollah has fought for control of the country but not without meeting resistance from Christian militias (and Sunni groups). As the state devolves into nothing more than a [...]
