Without an election to shake up parliament" you will see more of the same", Geagea said.... It has

BEIRUT( Reuters)-A Lebanese military court will ask Lebanese Forces( LF) party leader Samir Geagea

before was purely political.... Geagea said his party was assured that would be the case.... " The

head Samir Geagea denied.... 4, 2020 explosion, which killed more than 200 people and devastated

It initially said gunfire had targeted protesters but later stated there had been an altercation and exchange of fire while protesters were on their way to the demonstration.... A soldier suspected of firing towards protesters is under investigation.... " We will confront those who try to obstruct the file," he said.( Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Giles Elgood)....

BEIRUT: Heavy fighting claimed at least six lives and left dozens wounded in Lebanon’s capital on Thursday as an escalation of tensions around last year’s massive portside explosion turned parts of Beirut into a warzone. The army deployed tanks and troops to quell the street battles that sparked memories of the 1975-1990 civil war for a city already traumatised by last year’s blast disaster and Lebanon’s worst-ever economic crisis. The bloody unrest, in which the sound of automatic gunfire and g

To achieve that end, the US tasked Amos Hochstein, the US special envoy to the region and a former IDF soldier, to press Lebanon to immediately hold elections despite the Israeli onslaught.... Lebanese officials protested that in order to do so, they would have to reconvene parliament and there was no guarantee that Israel would not target that parliament to eliminate politicians they find problematic, given that Hezbollah and its allies control more than half the seats.... These then are the

BEIRUT: Hezbollah and its allies lost their majority in Lebanon’s parliament, official results showed on Tuesday, while independents achieved a surprise breakthrough. Full results announced by the interior ministry two days after the election revealed that no bloc will control the 128-seat assembly, a deadlock observers fear could usher in a tense period of political jostling. The polls, the first since Lebanon was ravaged by its worst ever economic crisis and a cataclysmic explosion at Beirut p

BEIRUT( Reuters)-At least six people were shot dead in Beirut on Thursday as demonstrations related to a probe into last year's catastrophic port blast prompted the city's worst civil violence in years.... The latest bloodshed adds to the woes of a country suffering one of the world's worst ever economic meltdowns. Here's what you need to know about the Lebanon crises: THE PROBEThursday's shooting erupted as protesters headed to a demonstration called by Hezbollah and its ally Amal to demand th

You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter.... My colleagues in the Lebanese capital, like countless other Beirutis, had their windows blown out and homes wrecked after a warehouse fire set off a vast store of ammonium nitrate that authorities had left to molder.... More than 200 people died, thousands were injured and huge sections of the city were destroyed, causing as much as$ 5 billion in damage. The explosion on Aug....