U.S. Denounces Murder of Lebanese Christian Leader
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The State Department said the United States views the assassination of Pierre Gemayel as an act of intimidation against the unity coalition
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Pierre Gemayel, scion of Lebanon's most prominent Christian family and a leading opponent of Syria, was gunned down Tuesday in a brazen daytime hit. The assassination threatened to intensify Lebanon's power struggle between the U.S.-allied government and the Syrian-backed Hezbollah.
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At least three people were killed in an explosion which damaged a U.S. diplomatic car in Beirut on Tuesday and wounded a U.S. passenger, security sources said.
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BEIRUT, May 31 -- Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim militia, and other opposition groups in Lebanon on Thursday denounced the U.N. creation of an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, calling it a violation of Lebanon's...
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Lebanese Christian minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, was assassinated near Beirut on Tuesday, security sources said.
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Lebanese Christian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, was assassinated near Beirut on Tuesday, security sources said.
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QANA, Lebanon  - An Israeli air strike killed at   least 40 Lebanese civilians, including 23 children, on Sunday,   prompting Lebanon to tell U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza   Rice she was unwelcome in Beirut before a ceasefire.
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Tony Blair says he "condemns utterly" the murder of a leading Christian Lebanese minister in Beirut.
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The United States condemned the  killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in  Beirut on Monday and said it would consult with the U.N.  Security Council about taking punitive measures against those  responsible.
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Israel denies killing alleged mastermind of US embassy bombings in Lebanon in the 1980s
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A car bomb damaged a U.S. diplomatic vehicle in Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding 16, but the U.S. State Department said no Americans were hurt by the blast.
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Lebanese investigators have concluded that al Qaeda-inspired militants killed a Christian Lebanese minister late last year, a Lebanese newspaper reported on Saturday.
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A Lebanese Christian leader said on   Sunday Hizbollah's war with Israel was a disaster for Lebanon   and rapped the Shi'ite Muslim group for rejecting calls to lay   down its arms.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 27  - The United States on Monday refused to comment on or condemn the weekend killing in Syria of a founder of the radical Islamist Hamas movement in a bombing that has been blamed on Israel.
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GENEVA, Nov 22 (IPS) - The assassination of Pierre Gemayel in Beirut on  Tuesday has interrupted an 18-month  relative safety for  anti-Syrian Lebanese politicians and intellectuals, and signals  the kick-off  of a series of events aiming at totally  destabilising the ailing national government and  dividing the  Christian community in the country -- and possibly plunging the  entire region  into chaos.
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Hezbollah leader Imad Moughniyah, on the United States' most wanted list for attacks on Israeli and Western targets, has been killed by a bomb attack in Damascus, the Lebanese group said on Wednesday.
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Prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday, his Phalange Party Voice of Lebanon radio station reported.