Insight: After Syria, al Qaeda expanding in Lebanon Reuters Lebanon, a small Mediterranean state with a fragile sectarian power sharing system, has seen the worst of the Syria's war spillover with car bombs in Beirut and Tripoli, gunfights in city streets and rocket fire in the Bekaa Valley. The violence is ... |
The Daily Star | Sleiman slams Israel for threatening Lebanese The Daily Star The unusually explicit Israeli threat appeared to be part of an effort by Israeli officials to prepare world opinion for high civilian casualties in any new confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Resolution 1701 ended the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war and ... IAF chief: Israel will destroy Hezbollah bases in Lebanon, even ones in ... Lebanon pres. condemns Israel threats as intl. law violation Israeli Air Force to Target Residential Areas in Next Lebanon War |
Lebanon Judge Leaves Bench: Cirone Oversaw Circuit Court for More Than 25 ... Valley News Lebanon — During Judge Albert J. Cirone Jr.'s 25 1/2 years on the bench in the 2nd Circuit Court in Lebanon, prosecutors learned what to expect. So when the judge ordered a juvenile offender to write a paper about lemmings, Cirone said he could see ... |
Lebanon man ordered to prison for drug offenses Lebanon Daily News A Lebanon man was sentenced Wednesday to five to 15 years in state prison for selling heroin in the city last summer. Victor Martinez Jr., 31, of 1218 Willow St. pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver heroin, possession of heroin ... |
The Daily Star | Lebanese sheikh charged with role in spate of attacks The Daily Star BEIRUT: Lebanon's military prosecutor Thursday charged Sheikh Omar Atrash over his alleged involvement in several car bombings as well as attacks targeting the Lebanese Army, Hezbollah and Israel. Hours before Judge Saqr Saqr charged Atrash, the ... |
The Daily Star | Lebanese sheikh charged over spate of attacks The Daily Star BEIRUT: Lebanon's military prosecutor Thursday charged Sheikh Omar Atrash over his alleged involvement in several car bombings as well as attacks targeting the Lebanese Army, Hezbollah and Israel. Hours before Judge Saqr Saqr charged Atrash, the ... |
The Daily Star | Inventor hopes to incinerate Lebanon's trash woes The Daily Star BEIRUT: Jamil Rima, environmentalist and professor of chemistry, hopes to bring Lebanon's waste battle to an end with a new invention that turns garbage into carbon coal fuel in just 15 minutes. “With all the garbage piling up, people started demanding ... |
Press TV | suspect admits role in Lebanon blasts Press TV The Lebanese army says a man who was arrested last week has confessed to links with terrorist groups in Syria and transporting bombers and car bombs into Syria and Lebanon. Omar Ibrahim al-Atrash, who was detained on January 22, has admitted ties to ... Lebanon: Man admits transporting bombs New report links Lebanese army to economic stability Beirut suburb on high alert after wave of bombings |
One killed from gunfire on Lebanon-Syrian border The Daily Star BEIRUT: One person was killed and another wounded Thursday after shots were fired from inside Syria into the northern border region of Wadi Khaled, the National News Agency reported. Khaled Khodor al-Quaisem, a Syrian national, died as a result of his ... |
Voice of America | Sectarian Splits Widen in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley Voice of America Shiite opinion is hardening and those who doubted the wisdom of the involvement of Hizbullah Lebanon's militant Shia movement, in the Syrian civil war on the side of Assad, an adherent of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, are now revising ... EU pitches in on Bekaa Valley's mounting trash problem At a glance: Lebanon Jabhat al-Nusra, Hizbullah in Lebanon 'two sides of same coin': analysts |