Washington Post (blog) | This is what the Syrian election looks like in Lebanon Washington Post (blog) (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images). While it's tempting to casually dismiss the upcoming Syrian election as a pointless exercise in legitimizing Bashar al-Assad's rule, the scenes today in Lebanon are a clear reminder that a lot of people feel very strongly ... Syria election: Refugees vote in Lebanon and Jordan Beirut roads paralyzed by Syrian voters headed to polls Syrians in Lebanon battle crowds to vote for Bashar al-Assad |
The Daily Star | Lebanese Patriarch Embraces Exiled Militiamen ABC News The leader of Lebanon's Maronite Catholic church celebrated an outdoor Mass Wednesday for hundreds of exiled countrymen who are considered traitors by many back home for helping Israel maintain an 18-year occupation of south Lebanon. Cardinal ... Rai working to bring ex-SLA members home Former SLA Soldiers Claim Lebanon Has 'Disowned' Them Lebanon patriarch visits disparate Israel flocks |
Crash Near Lebanon Kills One, Injures Another OzarksFirst.com LEBANON, Mo. -- A one car crash just west of Lebanon Sunday evening kills a young woman. The Missouri Highway Patrol reports Page Brown, 20, of Lebanon, died when the car she was in hit a guardrail on Highway 64. The car then hit a bridge facing and ... |
Trainer leads Lebanon to 4-1 win over Northmount Cincinnati.com DAYTON – The humidity bothered Tara Trainer as much as a recent illness, but neither issue prevented the right-handed pitcher from leading Lebanon to a 4-1 win over Northmont in Wednesday's Division I fast-pitch softball regional semifinal at the ... |
The Daily Star | Lebanon Arrests Radical Cleric Who Backed Militants New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese security forces on Sunday arrested a radical Islamic cleric who was long prominent in Britain and was wanted here under a new security plan to curb violence in the northern city of Tripoli that has been exacerbated by the ... Authorities detain militant Sheikh Omar Bakri Lebanon Arrests Syrian-born Hardline Preacher Hate cleric Omar Bakri held in Lebanon |
The Daily Star | Bassil urges world support for Army The Daily Star ... the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms and Kfar Shouba Hills. Lebanon's identity is about tolerance, he stressed, and this necessitates that the Lebanese cooperate in the struggle against “those who call for hatred, conflicts and the elimination of the ... |
Washington Post | Syrian voters in Lebanon throng embassy to cast ballots Washington Post YARZE, Lebanon — Syrians thronged their embassy in Lebanon Wednesday to cast ballots for President Bashar al-Assad, offering a forceful affirmation of his tightening grip on power after three years of conflict. The day was set aside for Syrian ... |
The Daily Star | More cooperation between ISF and Army planned The Daily Star BEIRUT: Lebanon will witness a new phase of cooperation between the security forces and the Army to make the country safer in the wake of bombings and other incidents over the last two years, security sources say. Sources noted the unprecedented visit ... |
Street Fair set for June 6-7 in Lebanon Lebanon Daily News Chris Beiler of Lebanon and his daughter, Hannah, walk through the Good Samaritan Hospital Auxiliary Street Fair in this photo taken in June 2013. The 2014 edition of the fair is set for June 6 and 7. Several streets in Lebanon will be closed for the ... |
The Daily Star | Saqr dismisses reports of assassination plot against Rai The Daily Star Earlier, security sources told The Daily Star that Lebanon's Internal Security Forces arrested a suspect who confessed to cooperating with regional intelligence services in a plot to assassinate Rai. Citing a security report by the ISF's Information ... |