With Hezbollah weakened, Lebanon to hold presidential vote
Lebanon's parliament will try to elect a president on Thursday, with officials seeing better chances of success in a political landscape shaken by Israel's war with Hezbollah and the toppling of the group's ally Bashar al-Assad in neighbouring Syria.
Lebanon prepares for presidential vote in test of Hizbollah’s power
Parliamentary election follows two years of political deadlock blamed on militant group now weakened by war with Israel
Lebanon leaders in talks for new bid to elect president
Lebanese political heavyweights held talks Wednesday a day ahead of a parliamentary session to elect a president, but even with key player Hezbollah weakened by war, there is no guarantee of consensus.
Lebanon Set For Yet Another Attempt At Electing President
Lebanese lawmakers are due to meet on Thursday to elect a president, but analysts say that even with key political player Hezbollah weakened by war, white smoke is not guaranteed.
Lebanon’s presidential election: A test of Hezbollah’s influence after losing war with Israel
By decimating Hezbollah, weakening Iran, and indirectly contributing to Bashar Assad’s ouster in Syria, Israel has gifted Lebanon with an opportunity to reclaim its sovereignty. Whether Lebanon can seize this moment will be tested on Thursday when its Parliament convenes for the 13th time in over two years to attempt to elect a new president.
Lebanon moves closer to electing a President as Israel ceasefire nears expiration
Lebanon risks losing vital reconstruction aid if parliament fails to elect a president during its session on Thursday. The high-stakes, long-awaited exercise comes about two weeks before the expiry of a 60-day deadline for Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon and ahead of US president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration,
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Defanged but still dangerous, Hezbollah will try to regain its bite, experts predict
Focused for now on reconstructing Lebanon and rebuilding support, the terror group will also seek to reconstitute its arsenal ...
Assad’s desperate final plea to Putin & panic-stricken wait to be bundled to Russia are REVEALED a month on from ousting
TYRANT Assad’s desperate final plea to Putin and his nerve-racking wait to be smuggled into Russia have been revealed. The ...
A senior Assad aide said a 'trick' by Putin contributed to Syria's collapse
A former aide to Syria's deposed President Bashar Assad described how he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
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Assad's former aide says deposed Syrian president was 'tricked' by Putin
Syria’s former media chief and top aide to Bashar al-Assad said that Russian President Vladimir Putin may have “tricked” the ...
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A Diminished Hezbollah is Made Even Weaker by the Toppling of Assad in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — A severely hobbled Hezbollah was in no position to help defend former Syrian President Bashar Assad, a longtime ally, from the lightning-fast insurgency that toppled him.
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Post-Assad Syria — A Work In Progress
Syria has been a work in progress, a nation to be rebuilt, since the downfall of its autocratic president, Bashar al-Assad, a ...
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Hezbollah chief says group lost critical arms supply route from Iran with Syrian ouster of Assad
Hezbollah lost its most important supply route from Iran through Syria with the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad, the group’s chief admitted Sunday. It was the first public acknowledgment of how ...
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Bashar al-Assad Regime Executes Dozens of Hamas Members Without Trial
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Dozens of Hamas leaders and members were killed by the regime of ousted Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, ...
Fragile Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire likely to hold, analysts say
The fragile Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire that was agreed on 27 November is likely to hold, analysts say, despite repeated ...
Iran pulls most of its forces out of Syria as rebels rebuild after fall of Assad regime: report
Iran has pulled out nearly all of its forces from Syria following the rebels’ victory against the Assad regime, dealing a ...