A year after the blistering war between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon is mired in political and economic crisis and faces a deadly new challenge from an Al-Qaeda-inspired Islamist militia.
Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa met Saudi King Abdullah on Sunday for talks on the first leg of a tour that will also take him to Syria to discuss the crisis in Lebanon.
Syria is calling on its citizens who are in Lebanon to leave the country ahead of an expected military "eruption" expected to take place next week.
BEIRUT - A year after the Israel-Hezbollah war which battered Lebanon, much of the infrastructure has been restored but the rebuilding of homes has been slow and the services sector remains stagnant.
With time running short, Lebanon's presidential election now tops the list of priorities in international and regional efforts to pull the country back from the brink of political chaos.
Arab League chief Amr Moussa tarveled to Saudi Arabia on Sunday and later left for Damascus in a bid to try to break the political impasse in Beirut by visiting two key regional players in Lebanese politics. The visits come amid fears that the September presidential election in Lebanon could further deepen divisions between members.
DOHA • Reach Out to Asia (Rota) has distributed school bags and supplies to Palestinian schoolchildren forced to flee their homes by the recent fighting in the Nahr Al Bared refugee camp, near Tripoli, Lebanon.
Staff Reporter REACH Out to Asia (Rota) is distributing schoolbags and supplies to Palestinian schoolchildren forced to flee their homes by the fighting in the Nahr Al Bared refugee camp in Lebanon.
Bank of Sharjah announced that it has completed the acquisition of Banque de la Bekaa SAL, a Lebanese bank, after obtaining the Central Bank of Lebanon and the Central Bank of the UAE’s approval.
Leading Middle Eastern and African mobile telecoms provider MTC today launched a benchmark report titled: Mobility: A Nation Under Siege analysing the vital role played by mobile telecommunications in assisting disaster recovery within Lebanon during the Israeli-Lebanese conflict in July 2006.