Belgian Crown Prince Philippe met Prime Minister Fuad Siniora after arriving in Beirut on Thursday to visit Belgian UN peacekeepers monitoring a truce on the Lebanon-Israel border, officials said.
A Russian envoy held talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the political stalemate in neighbouring Lebanon on Thursday.
A Tennessee Valley Veterans Administration administrator will be the interim director of Lebanon VA Medical Center starting April 29, VA director Terry Gerigk Wolf announced.
Bint Jbail is a small town in southern Lebanon. Labeled a Hezbollah stronghold, it was especially hard hit by Israeli air strikes during last summer’s war—more than 2,500 houses were damaged and 800 completely destroyed.
Israel's Lebanon war investigative commission won court approval on Thursday to delay publication of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's testimony until after the release of its interim findings later this month.
The U.N. Security Council has authorized a mission to check on reports of arms smuggling from Syria to Lebanon, which Britain said on Wednesday could trigger another crisis.
Syria or Iran continue to provide weapons to the Shiite militia Hezbollah in Lebanon in violation of a UN arms embargo, a senior US official said Wednesday.
A "stalled" situation in Lebanon is hampering efforts to check arms smuggling across the border with Syria, Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said Wednesday.
President Bush is requesting a dramatic increase in levels of funding to support ongoing relief and reconstruction efforts in Lebanon as part of the supplemental budget now under consideration in Congress, and administration officials addressing a congressional subcommittee assert that the funds are necessary to support progressive forces in that country.
Source: Reuters JERUSALEM, April 19 (Reuters) - Israel's Lebanon war investigative commission won court approval on Thursday to delay publication of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's testimony until after the release of ...