(MENAFN – Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) BEIRUT, Nov 8 (KUNA) — Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) launched a two-month campaign on Sunday to aid Syrian refugees in Lebanon …
Top shops flee drowning Lebanon
International name-brands leaving Lebanon in droves, workers’ salaries slashed By George Eid, CM middle east correspondent Four months after August’s apocalyptic Beirut port blast, Lebanon is still …
Lebanon’s president says hopes for balanced ties under Biden
CAIRO (Reuters) – Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun congratulated Joe Biden on Saturday for winning the U.S. presidency and voiced hope for a “return to balance in American-Lebanese relations” during …
US imposes sanctions on Lebanon’s former foreign minister
The Trump administration has imposed Treasury sanctions on one of Lebanon’s most influential politicians in an intensification of its attempts to defang the militia and political powerhouse Hezbollah.
Lebanon’s president seeks evidence behind U.S. sanctions on son-in-law
President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that Lebanon would seek evidence and documents from the United States that led Washington to impose sanctions on Gebran Bassil, a prominent Christian politician …
Lebanon’s Gebran Bassil downplays US sanctions
The leader of Lebanon’s largest Christian bloc, the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), Gebran Bassil, says he is not intimidated by the sanctions that the United States has imposed against him. “Sanctions …
Syria’s ruined economy is all Lebanon’s fault, says Assad
Syria’s economy has been battered by nearly a decade of civil war, international opprobrium and sanctions, and the aftershocks of this year’s global pandemic.But President Assad has attempted to …
Trump administration sanctions Christian leader in Lebanon
Iranian Hezbollah party, the Trump administration sanctions a top Christian leader accused of corruption in Lebanon.
US sanctions Lebanon leader’s son-in-law
The United States has imposed sanctions on Gebran Bassil, the leader of Lebanon’s biggest Christian political bloc and son-in-law of President Michel Aoun, …
US sanctions Lebanon’s Gebran Bassil for Hezbollah ties, corruption
The United States has sanctioned Lebanon’s Gebran Bassil for his role in endemic corruption as well as his support for Hezbollah, senior government officials announced Friday. “He represents …