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  • Lebanon
    Lebanon’s politics paralyzed by regional conflict

    With Lebanon's most powerful political parties funded and often directed by regional powers, the country has for decades been affected by events in the Middle East.

  • Lebanon and the Region
    Opinion: Tackling Islamic State: a message from Lebanon

    Barack Obama never understood properly the dangers inherent in the Syrian situation. Obama wants to defeat the Islamic State but he doesn’t want to do anything about the conflict in Syria: he has separated artificially the anti-Islamic State campaign and the conflict in Syria, as if these things were not intimately tied into one another. Three years ago a number of people were writing – I was only one of them – that you cannot do nothing in Syria, because the problem you’re trying to avoid today may be become a problem later that you simply cannot avoid.”

  • France-Lebanon
    France, Lebanon sign Saudi-funded arms deal

    This deal will help to ensure the army’s mission to defend its territory and to fight terrorism at a time when Lebanon is threatened,” Fabius said.

  • Lebanon
    Rivals Tehran, Riyadh pledge billions to Lebanon’s army

    Late last year, Riyadh agreed to give $3 billion worth of French-made weapons to Lebanon’s military at a still-unspecified date. It also granted $1 billion in emergency aid to the country’s military and intelligence agencies in August after militants linked to extremists in Syria briefly captured the Lebanese border town of Arsal. Combined, the pledges amount to more than double the military’s estimated annual budget. During a visit to Beirut in September, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, responded with an arms offer from Tehran. According to Lebanese media reports, that consists primarily of antitank weapons, artillery and heavy machine guns.

  • Saudi-Lebanon
    French-Saudi Arms deal for Lebanon to be inked today

    Saudi Arabia and France will on Tuesday seal a deal to provide Lebanon's army with USD 3 billion worth of French weapons, with Riyadh footing the bill, a Saudi daily and a French source had said yesterday.

  • Lebanon and Syrian Refugees
    Lebanon Cabinet votes to stop accepting Syrian refugees

    The Cabinet’s decision will “stop the flow of all Syrian refugees except those with an exceptional humanitarian case,” Joreige said. Also, the UN refugee agency will need an approval from the Ministry of Social Affairs before registering any Syrian national as a refugee. The minister also said the government would encourage "refugees to return home or to go to any other country by all possible means.” The plan also calls for dropping the refugee status of anyone who set foot on Syrian territory.

  • Lebanon
    The politics of Lebanon: The state that didn’t fail—yet

    Lebanon is, like other Arab states, a sectarian patchwork. Its Sunnis share the fury of their Syrian co-religionists against the regime of President Bashar Assad; and its Shia share the fears of the minorities that support Syria’s government. Yet Lebanon did not fall into the abyss when Hizbullah, the Shia party-cum-militia, entered the war to prop up Mr Assad. It survived when Syria’s mainly Sunni rebels used northern Lebanon as a transit route for their arms. It has kept going despite the influx of more than 1m Syrian refugees, now a fifth of the total population.

  • Saudi-Lebanon
    Lebanon to get Saudi-financed arms soon

    Lebanon's army will soon receive military equipment as part of a $1 billion grant from Saudi Arabia to help it fight Islamist militants encroaching into Lebanon from Syria, former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said on Tuesday.

  • Lebanon, Saudi, Russian Arms
    Lebanon to get Russian helicopters, air defense: report

    Lebanon is considering using a Saudi grant to buy much needed weapons and equipment from Moscow to bolster its Army amid a jihadist threat, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk has said. “There are talks on buying Russian arms and special equipment by Lebanon,” the World Tribune quoted Machnouk as saying during his visit to Moscow in late September to discuss weapons supplies to Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces.

  • Saudi-Lebanon
    Saudi Arabia waiting on new president for $3B grant to Lebanon

    The arms deal is “not advancing.”