BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's Hezbollah on Thursday vehemently rejected accusations that it was involved in training members of the Shiite opposition engaged in anti-regime protests in Bahrain.
"We cannot remain silent as concerns accusations about training (regime opponents)," the Shiite militant group said in a statement. "The accusations are aimed at undermining the peaceful demonstrations [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's unity government collapsed on Wednesday after the powerful Hezbollah and its allies resigned from the cabinet over a UN probe into the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri.
Energy Minister Gebran Bassil told a press conference that 10 ministers had tendered their resignations because of a long-running dispute with Prime Minister Saad Hariri -- son of the slain l [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's unity government collapsed on Wednesday after the powerful Hezbollah and its allies resigned from the cabinet over a UN probe into the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri.
Energy Minister Gebran Bassil told a press conference that 10 ministers from the 30-member cabinet had tendered their resignations because of a long-running dispute with Prime Minister Saad H [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's government on Wednesday looked set to fall after Hezbollah and its allies warned they would quit unless their demands over a UN tribunal probing the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri are met.
Health Minister Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh, whose Amal party is allied with the powerful Hezbollah, told AFP the government could collapse as early as Wednesday afternoon.
"If the cab [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah is counting on a joint Syrian-Saudi initiative to contain the impact of looming indictments by a UN-backed court set to implicate members of the group in the murder of Lebanon's ex-premier, experts say.
"There is a sense that the moment of truth is fast approaching," said Peter Harling of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group.
"The whole idea behind the S [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Israel bugged the mobile phones of members of Lebanon's Hezbollah, allowing it to send false text messages and to track the phones' movements, a senior Hezbollah MP and a government expert said on Tuesday.
"The enemy (Israel) has succeeded in planting secret lines ... in the mobile phones of some members of the resistance," Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said in reference to [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Israel bugged the mobile phones of members of Lebanon's Hezbollah, allowing it to send false text messages and to track the phones' movements, a senior Hezbollah MP and a government expert said on Tuesday.
"The enemy (Israel) has succeeded in planting secret lines ... in the mobile phones of some members of the resistance," Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said in reference to [...]
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN investigators have overwhelming proof that Hezbollah militants carried out the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, Canadian broadcaster CBC said Monday.
The United Nations expressed concern that leaks of the special tribunal on Lebanon's inquiries could influence its work on the 2005 bomb blast.
CBC said evidence gathered by Lebanese detectiv [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah on Sunday dismissed an Israeli decision to pull troops out of a disputed village on the border with Lebanon as nothing more than a "trick" and accused the UN of complicity with Israel.
"The Israeli enemy wants to show that it has fully pulled out from Lebanese territory," Hezbollah MP Mohammed Raad said in a speech in south Lebanon, excerpts of which were distribu [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Radical Islamist preacher Omar Bakri has appointed a Hezbollah legislator as his defence lawyer when he goes on trial, a judicial source said on Tuesday, following his arrest in northern Lebanon.
"Omar Bakri has appointed Hezbollah deputy Nawwar Sahili as his lawyer for the retrial," the date of which has not yet been set, the source told AFP.
Lebanese police on Sunday arrested [...]
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