2024-05-19 10:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The quintet ambassadors—comprising the United States, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt—are exploring a consultation mechanism. They aim to ascertain if a consensus can be reached on a presidential candidate, or if a presidential election can be organized with a limited list of contenders. However, as of yet, these ambassadors have not ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-05-13 12:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
European Union Lebanese Forces
Member of the "Strong Republic" bloc (Lebanese Forces), MP Fadi Karam, affirmed that the bloc will participate in Wednesday's parliamentary session dedicated to discussing the one-billion-euro grant from the European Union. “This session differs from its predecessors and falls within the framework of the Parliament exercising its supervisory ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-05-09 20:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On Thursday, MPs of the Strong Republic Bloc (Lebanese Forces) presented a memorandum to the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Beirut, emphasizing that "Lebanon is not a country of asylum, but a transit country," citing the massive Syrian presence in Lebanon. During a meeting with the UNHCR ...
Élie-Joe Kamel, 2024-05-07 22:23 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The President of the Parliamentary Committee on Administration and Justice, Georges Adwan, announced that a draft law on organizing the presence of Syrians in Lebanon and the modalities of their repatriation will be presented to Parliament. During a press conference he held on Tuesday at Place de l'Étoile, Adwan called for "sending back ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-05-02 10:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Strong Republic parliamentary bloc (Lebanese Forces-LF) has appealed to the Constitutional Council, challenging the law passed on April 25 that extends the mandates of municipal councils. "We will always oppose, through legal channels, the ruling authorities that attempt to undermine institutions and elections," asserted Georges Okaiss, a ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-26 15:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Lebanese Forces expressed deep regret over a recent Human Rights Watch report, criticizing the "intentional mixing between the deportation of Syrian refugee activists, which leads to their persecution and arrest in their country, and the assertion that 99% of refugees in Lebanon aren't activists.” The LF condemned this misrepresentation, ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-26 09:30 - Reading : less than a minute
The Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) will not participate in the national conference convened by the Lebanese Forces (LF) in Maarab on Saturday to discuss ways to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and end military operations in South Lebanon. Sources close to the LF say that the invitation was extended only to MPs and opposition ...
Alissar Boulos, 2024-04-23 16:12 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Interior Bassam Mawlawi has set the following dates for the municipal elections: May 12 for Mount Lebanon, May 19 for North Lebanon and Akkar, and finally, May 26 for Beirut, Bekaa, and Baalbeck-Hermel. The door for submitting candidate applications in North Lebanon opened on Monday, but uncertainty still persists about ...
2024-04-17 21:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A controversy pits Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri's Amal Movement against the Lebanese Forces over upcoming municipal elections, which the Amal-Hezbollah duo wishes to postpone, much to the LF’s dismay. In a statement issued by their information department on Wednesday, the Lebanese Forces strongly reacted to remarks made the day before by ...
2024-04-16 08:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The recent surge of security incidents in Lebanon leaves no room for doubt: they mask a deliberate scheme aimed at destabilizing the country, and a conspiracy undermining civil peace, coexistence and national unity. The latest destabilizing incident was the kidnapping and killing of Pascal Sleiman, Lebanese Forces coordinator in the Jbeil ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-12 23:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Interior, Bassam Mawlawi, stated on Friday evening that “the investigation into the murder of Pascal Sleiman is still in a preliminary stage in the hands of the army.” In an interview with the pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Mawlawi declared that “the Lebanese people’s speculations about the operation’s details ...
Chelsea Al Arif, 2024-04-12 18:39 - Reading : less than a minute
Pascal Sleiman lays in his final resting place. The LF coordinator, killed last Sunday, arrived this Friday in his village of Mayfouk, welcomed by hundreds of companions, for his final journey. Friday was a long day full of emotions for Lebanon, especially for the Lebanese Forces, who gathered in large numbers in various regions of ...