As the newly appointed governor of Lebanon's central bank, Karim Souaid has become a key player in the daunting task of ...

Some minorities may see benefits in allying with Israel today. Syria is now ruled by a former al-Qaeda leader. A recent ...

Lebanese Maronite Christians and Israeli Alliances: During the Lebanese Civil War, some Maronite Christian militias allied with Israel, while others opposed it. Latin America inherited Spanish and ...

On Jan. 9, lawmakers elected Maronite Christian Joseph Aoun, a man of the «West,» to the position of head of state. Aoun was the top commander of Lebanon’s army and trained in the U.S., which ...

Lebanon was once a Christian-majority country, the only such one in the Middle East. In the early '40s, when Lebanon became independent, its population comprised Maronite Christians, Greek ...

lie the Christian village of Kobeyat and the Moslem village of Jaafra. But there is bad blood between them. In the Lebanese rebellion of last summer, the 8,000 Maronite Roman Catholics of Kobeyat ...

The source added that he was Aoun's favoured candidate for the post. According to multi-confessional Lebanon's power-sharing system, the army chief must be a Maronite Christian. The November ceasefire ...

Christians began to outnumber the Druze; they also secured French consular protection, which increased their power. The erosion of Druze authority fostered anti-Maronite sentiment in the region. In ...

NNA - Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rahi met with Kataeb MP Salim Sayegh at the patriarchal seat in Bkerke on Tuesday, where they discussed key national issues. Following the meeting, Say ...

Aoun, a Maronite Christian, then selected Nawaf Salam, a scion of a prominent Sunni family, as Lebanon’s prime minister. Hezbollah still retains widespread support in Lebanon, particularly among ...

Aoun's power is limited under Lebanon's "power-sharing system, in which the president is always a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament Shiite," The ...

A delegation from the Sovereign Order of Malta is meeting government officials in Lebanon to discuss ways to support the ...