Obama demands Hezbollah be named a terrorist group
US President Barack Obama on Thursday demanded that foreign governments brand Hezbollah a “terrorist organization,” slamming the Lebanon-based militia for attacks on Israelis.
US President Barack Obama on Thursday demanded that foreign governments brand Hezbollah a “terrorist organization,” slamming the Lebanon-based militia for attacks on Israelis.
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday condemned the deadly Beirut car bombing that raised fears that Lebanon’s fragile political system could be torn apart by the war raging in neighbouring Syria.
A powerful car bomb in Beirut killed a senior official linked to the anti-Damascus camp in Lebanon on Friday, officials said, further raising tensions over the war in the neighbouring country.
A powerful car bomb killed at least eight people and wounded another 78 on Friday in mainly Christian east Beirut, in the first such attack in Lebanon’s capital since 2008, the National News Agency reported.
Pope Benedict XVI is to meet leaders of Lebanon’s Muslim communities on Saturday, a key moment in a visit aimed in part at bridging the gap between Christians and Muslims in the Middle East.
Pope Benedict XVI appealed for peace Friday at a time of deep turmoil in the Middle East, calling the flow of weapons into Syria a “grave sin” as the country endures a bloody civil war.
The United States is working with Middle East and North African nations, particularly Tunisia and Sudan, to beef up security at its missions hit by violent protests, US officials said Friday.
The brutal civil war in Syria and this week’s slaying of the U.S. ambassador to Libya have given a sense of urgency to Pope Benedict XVI’s trip this week to Lebanon, a mission he describes as a pilgrimage of peace for the entire region.
Seven people were injured when an explosion apparently caused by a bomb shook a restaurant in the south Lebanese coastal town of Tyre, a Lebanese security source said Monday.
Pope Benedict XVI will visit Lebanon from September 14 to 16, the Vatican announced on Sunday.
Thai police charged a Lebanese man suspected of planning an attack in Bangkok after they raided a property on Monday and discovered chemicals that could be used to make a bomb.
At least 11 people were killed and 12 were injured when a run-down six-story apartment block collapsed without warning in the Lebanese capital, a Red Cross official told AFP on Monday.
BEIRUT—Lebanese security forces captured one of five Islamist militants who escaped from the country’s main jail on Saturday outside a Palestinian refugee camp, a security official told AFP. “Mauritanian national Medhat Hassan Khalil Ahmed, one of the inmates belonging to Fatah al-Islam who escaped earlier today from Roumieh prison, was captured just outside the Beddawi [...]
