Beirut- Lebanon's top leaders on Wednesday welcomed the five prisoners freed from Israeli jails in line with a swap between Hezbollah and the Jewish state.
By Joel GreenbergBeirut / Jerusalem - An exchange of bodies and prisoners between Israel and Hezbollah on Wednesday put on stark display the Middle East's bitter divisions:
Beirut - Four tractor-trailers carrying the remains of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters headed Thursday from southern Lebanon to Beirut, a day after a prisoner exchange between Israel and Lebanon.
Beirut- Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman has drawn up the road map for the next stage, saying Lebanese citizens who were forced to leave their country should return home and the whereabouts of missing countrymen should be determined.
Beirut - Israel sent voice messages to Lebanese mobile users in southern Lebanon and the capital Beirut, as part of a psychological war, urging them to turn against Hezbollah, local Voice of Lebanon reported Thursday.
By Steven Gutkin and Aron HellerBeirut / Jerusalem - Critics of Israel's lopsided prisoner exchange with Lebanese guerrillas said Wednesday that such deals only encourage more hostage-taking
Beirut / Baghdad - Lebanon's parliament majority leader MP Saad al-Hariri met Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Thursday in a further sign the Iraqi government's ties with the Arab world are expanding.
Beirut - Following the successful execution of the prisoner swap deal between Hezbollah and Israel the focus will now shift to the detainees in the Syrian jails. Unfortunately the welcoming speech by the president yesterday did not refer to the
The stark sight of two black coffins sparked anguish and tears among relatives of two missing Israeli soldiers on Wednesday - the first evidence they had that the pair were dead. Immediately after television channels aired footage of Lebanese group
Tens of thousands of jubilant people descended into the Rayeh football court in Beirut's southern suburbs, better known as Dahiyeh, Wednesday night to celebrate the prisoner exchange that took place earlier that morning. In the prisoner exchange five Lebanese prisoners
Israeli commentators sharply criticized a prisoner exchange with Hizbullah on Wednesday, saying it gave a propaganda victory to the Lebanese group and set a dangerous precedent. The Maariv daily newspaper said Israel had been humiliated, arguing that Hizbullah leader Sayyed
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says he is encouraged by an exchange of prisoners that took place between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbullah on Wednesday. Ban said at a news conference in Berlin that he hoped it will be the
Senior Lebanese officials welcomed Wednesday the prisoner swap between Israel and Shiite group Hizbullah, with many saying that the exchange would serve to bolster unity in Lebanon. Speaking to Al-Jazeera television about the returning Lebanese prisoners, Christian opposition leader and
Five Lebanese prisoners freed by Israel arrived to a hero's welcome in Lebanon Wednesday, hours after Hizbullah handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers seized two years ago.Among those freed in a prisoner swap greeted with triumph in Lebanon
President Michel Sleiman said on Wednesday that the new government's ministerial statement would be based on six main pillars. These include the Taif Accord, international resolutions, Arab foreign ministers' decisions made in January 2008, Lebanese national dialogue decisions in 2006,
Five Lebanese prisoners arrived to a triumphant red carpet welcome in Lebanon on Wednesday after being freed by Israel in a prisoner swap after years behind bars. The five - Samir Kontar and Hizbullah members Khaled Zeidan, Maher Kurani, Mohammad
President Hamid Karzai appointed Wednesday a team of experts to investigate allegations that Pakistan had dumped nuclear waste in southern Afghanistan, his office said. In April, an Afghan minister told the BBC that his government had evidence Pakistan had buried
Troops backed by fighter jets and helicopter gunships killed 11 separatist Kurdish rebels in the Buzul (iceberg) mountains of southeastern Hakkari province, which borders Iran and Iraq, the Turkish Army said Wednesday. The latest deaths brought to 33 the number
