Security agencies have busted three suicide rings that allegedly have no direct links to the recent bombings that targeted a police checkpoint and the entrance Beirut's southern suburbs.
A security source told al-Mustaqbal newspaper published on Sunday that the Army Intelligence is questioning the first network, the General Security Directorate the second and the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch the third ring.
Full StoryBritish Ambassador to Lebanon Tom Fletcher revealed on Sunday that Britain, France, the United States and Saudi Arabia are seeking to end the Presidential impasse in Lebanon without interfering in the names of the candidates.
Fletcher said in comments published in al-Mustaqbal newspaper that Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi called on the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council during Wednesday's meeting to “secure the presidential poll and to urge lawmakers to attend the parliamentary sessions in this regard.”
Full StoryProgressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Sunday traveled to the French capital Paris for talks with President Francois Hollande.
"Jumblat has left Beirut for Paris," state-run National News Agency reported in the afternoon.
Full StorybeIN Sports has filed a lawsuit against the state-run Tele Liban for airing the World Cup games for free and without permission, TL announced on Saturday evening.
"beIN decided to sue the nation's television channel TL over airing the World Cup matches,” sports analyst at the state's network Ali Alawiyeh announced right before the Brazil-Chile game kicked off on Saturday evening.
Full StoryTwo rockets fired from the Eastern Mountain Belt landed in the Bekaa town of Brital without causing any injuries, the military institution announced on Saturday evening.
“The rockets landed near the village's al-Hajjeh school,” the Army Command said in a communique, adding that no injuries were reported.
Full StoryInterrogation with the detained would-be suicide bomber Abdul Rahman al-Shenifi revealed that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is selling oil to finance its terrorist operations, LBCI television reported on Saturday.
“Al-Shenifi revealed that ISIL is selling oil in Syria and Iraq and through this activity has managed to have cash money,” LBCI said.
Full StoryLebanon bid farewell on Saturday afternoon to former Prime Minister Rashid al-Sold at a state funeral in southern Beirut.
Prime Minister Tammam Salam led the funeral which left al-Solh's house in the Beirut neighborhood of Ain al-Tineh at 4:00 pm and marched towards the Ouzai area.
Full StoryThe army announced on Saturday that detainees apprehended during raids in the northern Akkar region of Fnaideq over the past week confessed to the existence of a cave in the region where they used to prepare explosives.
The army said in a statement that it carried out a raid of the cave where it discovered bombs that were prepared to be detonated.
Full StoryMustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri and United States Secretary of State John Kerry stressed during their meeting on Thursday the need to elect a new president for Lebanon as soon as possible.
As Safir newspaper reported on Saturday that the talks “may produce a new international dynamic to deal with the presidential elections.”
Full StoryLebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea is keen to hold the parliamentary elections and avoid the extension of parliament's tenure for a second time, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Saturday.
It said that he strongly advocates holding the polls for “constitutional reasons,” adding that he has started his consultations with March 14 camp parties, namely the Mustaqbal Movement, to that end.
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