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Jumblat Holds 'Frank' Talks with Geagea but 'Nothing New' in Presidency Issue

peacelover...agreed

Bassil Slams Attempt to Topple Parliamentary Elections, Says Polls to Resolve All Crises

pheonix. Do you agree there should be another postponement of parliamentary elections?

MPs Elect Parliament Bureau, Committee Members ahead of Expected Mandate Extension

There's is no excuse for the extension of parliament.... No agreement on a new electoral means using the same previous and still existing law! It doesn't matter any longer who the new president is coz he will be elected by an illegitimate parliament! Whether Aoun or geagea or helou, any president will be elected by an illegitimate parliament. Extending president Michel Suliman's term would have been better.

Why not just cancel all future elections and keep the same parliamentary members that represent themselves! Please let the army declare a coup and save Lebanon from this charade!

MPs Elect Parliament Bureau, Committee Members ahead of Expected Mandate Extension

It happened previously with General Fouad Chehab and it worked with great effect. It wouldn't necessary mean Khawagie as president but they could appoint a caretaker neutral and consensus president like Ziad Baroud who had the backing of the LAF to appoint a government and fix the systems that sectarian politics cant. The people are sick of the political system... they need is the grand mufti and batrak backing. Hezbollah and the shiites know they cant oppose the LAF without losing all legitimacy and Christian support!

MPs Elect Parliament Bureau, Committee Members ahead of Expected Mandate Extension

True Flamethrower... especially that the key ingredient to this sabotage is Berri and the AMAL movement.

MPs Elect Parliament Bureau, Committee Members ahead of Expected Mandate Extension

well put Sebouh80

Army to Recruit Soldiers Starting Next Week

What defections? 5 idiots that have embarrassed their families? Instead of villagers arming themselves they should all join the LAF! God speed to our soldiers... Ya WATANI!

Army to Recruit Soldiers Starting Next Week

mowaten... conscription accounted for 20,000 soldiers. They have enough weopons and ability to train privates in the army. Instead of bringing back conscription the salaries should be increased. Pay the private soldiers double what they are getting now and see the line up at the recruitment centres. Instead of paying them peanuts and feeding them fasoulia, pay them a decent salary and give them free education at the universities like in Australia. They train them and educate them at the same time! The Government wastes so much money and borrows so much.... for what? What is needed is a strong, professional and confident armed forces.

Army to Recruit Soldiers Starting Next Week

speakfreely... The LAF has not received any money! All they have received is small arms and hell fire missiles from the USA. All the money that KSA has so famously donated to the LAF i.e. The $3 billion US, is nothing but an arabian desert mirage... bedouin lies. France has agreed to supply the weapons but are frustrated as to why KSA is holding back the money... It's because they don't intend to give anything. Without the heavy weapons, the LAF can only rely on a well trained "Special Forces" army that can fight without the heavy weapons they really need. The aussie ADF only have around 30,000 army soldiers but they are all trained so well, that even the standard soldier is at the special forces level compared to many other armies. This is something the LAF can do without relying on donated advanced weaponry that will never come.

Syria Kurds Skeptical as Erdogan Says 1,300 FSA Fighters to Join Kobane Battle

yeh that will be interesting to see if this doesn't result in kurdish FSA fighting in the near future. At the end of the day, only a political solution will end the syrian conflict and you cant deal politically with ISIS or al nusra. Only the kurds, FSA and syrian regime can end this.
Same goes with the idea that Assad's regime cannot be apart of a negotiated end. The majority of syrians are clearly on the Government side and any peace settlement will result in the turkish promoted FSA, SAA and Kurds ceasefire or alliance.