Beirut- Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun said he accepts "whatever Hezbollah accepts" regarding the question of Shebaa Farms otherwise they have to be liberated

Beirut / Athens- Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt emphasized the impossibility of normalizing Lebanese-Syrian relations before the Syrian regime's "categorical acknowledgment of Lebanese independence."

Beirut- Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun on Thursday reportedly rejected an offer of cabinet ministries from Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Fouad Siniora.

The President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, is satisfiedwith the results of his official visit to Azerbaijan and the talks held in Baku with his Azerbaijani counterpart. "I am fullysatisfied with their results," Medvedev said to a jointbriefing with the President

Beirut - Progressive Socialist party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said he will take part in the welcoming ceremony for Lebanese prisoner Samir Quntar and other detainees to be freed soon as part of a swap deal between Hezbollah and Israel.

Beirut - The Iranian embassy in Lebanon said on Thursday that four Iranian diplomats, seized in 1982 by a Christian militia in Lebanon, are still alive and being held in Israel.

Beirut- Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gave a live press conference in which he revealed details of the prisoner swap and attacked the British government for listing Hezbollah military group as a terrorist organization

Beirut- Lebanon's Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani on Wednesday said the expected release of Lebanese prisoners from Israeli jails is a "national accomplishment."