France’s president began a visit to Lebanon Friday, where he will meet the crisis-hit country’s newly elected leaders, as the ...

Geopolitical shifts in the troubled Middle East, highlighted by the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iran's ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Lebanon on Friday to help speed up the formation of a ...

Najib Mikati, secured only nine votes. Thirty-five ballots were cast blank. Image Mohammad Raad, a senior Hezbollah lawmaker, in Baabda, Lebanon, Monday after Mr. Salam was named prime minister ...

(MENAFN) Lebanon's Political landscape has witnessed a fierce competition for the position of prime minister, with Najib Mikati, who enjoys support from key political factions such as the Shiite ...

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati congratulated Salam shortly after results were out to congratulate and wish him luck with the new job. Salam is expected to be back in Lebanon now that he is ...

14 (UPI) --BEIRUT, Lebanon, January 14 (UPI ... as part of a deal under which the incumbent Prime Minister Najib Mikati, whom they support, was to be named again as prime minister.

(MENAFN- Asia Times) The good news from Lebanon is that Hezbollah's incumbent prime minister, Najib Mikati, has lost the race for another term, causing the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia to ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese President Joseph Aoun began consultations with lawmakers on Monday to designate a prime minister in what political sources saw as a tight race between incumbent Najib ...

Prior to that, incumbent caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati was widely viewed as the ... power-sharing “pact.” Unofficially, Lebanon’s major sects – Muslims from Sunni and Shia sects ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 13 (UPI ... caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, received nine votes after a day of binding parliamentary consultations led by newly elected President Joseph Aoun.