Lebanese PM @saadhariri from Baabda: I agreed with President Aoun on necessity of speeding up gov't formation process, and we're going to have another meeting soon.
Fmr. Lebanese President Michel Sleiman: After delivery of Russian S-300 defense system to Syria, [Lebanon's] national interest requires not turning Lebanon into a battleground for regional conflicts, particularly the Israeli-Iranian one.
Hezbollah bloc hails FM Bassil's move which refuted "Israeli lies" before public opinion
Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc: The resistance stands by President Aoun in a bid to preserve Lebanon's sovereignty
President Michel Aoun: Lebanon will repel any Israeli aggression against its sovereignty
Lebanon: Aoun reportedly asks UN 2 provide aid to refugees once they return home. Sources quote Aoun: "They lived in tents in Lebanon, they going to live in tents in Syria. Why not keep helping them confront difficult conditions (homes destroyed, no infrastructure, services)
Ambassadors touring at sports stadium near Beirut airport
3 month agoAmbassadors accidentally went to the golf course *near* but not *at* one of the sites. Diplomats losing patience
Lebanon MFA Bassil and the foreign ambassadors arrived at the sites that Israel pointed as Hezbollah missile sites near Beirut airport
3 month agoHundreds of refugees leaving Lebanon to go home to Syria.
Lebanese won't accept UN to be used as a platform to assault Lebanon: Bassil
3 month ago73 ambassadors descend on Lebanon's foreign ministry for press conference and then tour of sites Netanyahu said at UN General Assembly are secret Hezbollah missile depots.
Lebanon Foreign Minister: Israel seeks to justify another aggression on Lebanon with the alleged presence of missile sites of Hezbollah
3 month agoUSAF RC-135V 64-14848 off Syria
Al-Arabiya: Yemen's Information Minister Muammar al-Iryani criticized Lebanon's Hezbollah, stating that it has turned its stronghold in Beirut into a platform for Houthis, and calling on the Lebanese government to abide by a policy of non-interference
Lebanese President Michel Aoun: We're all fighting terrorism in Lebanon, and Hezbollah repelled the first attack by terror groups against us in Qusayr
Aoun to Russia Today: Hezbollah is part of the Syrian crisis. The failure to reach a settlement constitutes another reason for the group to stay there.
3 month agoNetanyahu reveals: Hizbollah is working to build an infrastructure for assembling precision rockets into the heart of Beirut. In the past year Hezbollah has been trying to build an infrastructure to convert ground-to-ground missiles to precision missiles in the Uzai neighborhood, near the Beirut airport
After PM Netanyahu speech at the UNGA, Israel army reveals satellite images of Hezbollah's project to upgrade missiles near central sites in Beirut
3 month agoMichel Aoun, Lebanon's President, tells UNGA that the UNSecurityCouncil has been ineffective due to the veto right, and that countries avoid implementing resolutions "with impunity"
Disputes between internal security forces and airport security forces lead to a halt in passenger traffic at Rafik Hariri airport in Beirut
Lebanese media: passengers stopped for a while at Rafik Hariri airport in Beirut
Abbas Ibrahim, head of Lebanon General Security says so far this year his agency organized the return of 25,000 Syrians in coordination with Damascus. Another 25,000 made their own way home. "The number could reach 200,000 in a year if it continues at this rate"
3 month agoLebanon Druze leader Joumblatt: "Hundreds of (ISIS) fighters were transfered (by Syria'n government) from Abu Kamal (border to Iraq) toward Idlib to blow up Russia'n-Turkey agreement Same happened when transported from Damascus suburb to Sweida (to attack this Druze area)"
President Aoun meets with Jordanian king
PM Hariri says campaign launched against Lebanese pound and economy Lebanon
Aoun meets al-Sisi in New York
Lebanese PM @saadhariri met with visiting @FBI Director Christopher Wray in his Bayt al-Wasat compound
4 month agoHezbollah supporters march and commemorate the tenth of Muharram in the southern Lebanese city of Tyros
Russian Ministry of Defense praises Lebanon's cooperation in the repatriation of Syrian refugees and appreciates the role of President Michel Aoun personally
