Lebanon's pro-Western bloc will retain its control of the country's government despite a strong challenge from a Hezbollah-dominated alliance, according to official election results released Monday.
Lebanon's prime minister paid a visit to Iraq on Wednesday -- the first such visit by a Lebanese leader in the post-Saddam Hussein era -- and he and his Iraqi counterpart discussed issues including oil exports and investment.
Imad Mughniyeh was a master of deception. He was also Hezbollah's chief of security and its strategist. His alleged role in bombings and kidnappings earned him a place on the "Most Wanted Terrorists" list of the United States.
Lebanon's pro-Western bloc will retain its control of the country's government despite a strong challenge from a Hezbollah-dominated alliance, according to official election results released Monday.
Lebanon's prime minister paid a visit to Iraq on Wednesday -- the first such visit by a Lebanese leader in the post-Saddam Hussein era -- and he and his Iraqi counterpart discussed issues including oil exports and investment.
Imad Mughniyeh was a master of deception. He was also Hezbollah's chief of security and its strategist. His alleged role in bombings and kidnappings earned him a place on the "Most Wanted Terrorists" list of the United States.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is "extremely concerned" about the delay in electing a new Lebanese president, a hiatus that has gone "well past the constitutional timeframe."
Just hours before President Emile Lahoud was scheduled to leave office, an opposition boycott has kept Lebanon's parliament from choosing his successor.
Supporters and opponents of Lebanon's pro-Western government appeared to split seats on Sunday as Lebanese voters went to the polls to replace two ruling-party lawmakers assassinated in recent months.
Crowds of people snaked through the streets of Pierre Gemayel's Christian hometown to mourn the Lebanese industry minister suspected by his supporters of being assassinated by those intent on weakening Lebanon's anti-Syrian government.
Lebanese Cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel -- a key member of the anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanese parliament -- has been shot dead in an assassination that raises tensions between opponents and allies of Syria.
A constitutional crisis in Lebanon is threatening plans for an international tribunal to try those allegedly involved in the assassination of the country's former Prime Minister.
Five Shiite ministers resigned from Lebanon's Cabinet on Saturday after talks about giving the Hezbollah party more power collapsed, according to party spokesmen.
Lebanese leaders Wednesday called for the multicultural country to remain united amid an eight-day Israeli bombardment, a call joined by the son of slain Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
A year after the brutal slaying of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, hundreds of thousands of supporters gathered in Martyrs Square to celebrate his life and sustain political support for the country's so-called Cedar Revolution that swept Syrian troops out of the country last year.
President Bush on Friday promised the son of slain former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri that his father's assassination will receive a "full and firm investigation."
A man who called himself "the main witness" in the U.N. investigation of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said his testimony was coerced by Hariri's son and his advisors, the Syrian news agency SANA reported Monday.
The son of slain former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said Saturday his father was a "martyr" and called for an international court to exact justice on his assassins.
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad sat down Wednesday and, in an exclusive interview, spoke to CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour.
Three former top Lebanese security officials detained in early morning raids Tuesday are suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the current prime minister said.
Candidates led by the son of slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri were projected to win a solid victory in Lebanon's final round of parliamentary elections Sunday, but official results were not expected until Monday, a Hariri aide said.
The opposition bloc led by a son of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has won a decisive victory in round one of Lebanon parliamentary sections.
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