Lebanon Official Critical of Syria Is Assassinated
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The assassination jolted a nation already paralyzed by political conflict that threatens to topple the government.
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A gunman attacks a Syrian checkpoint near the border with Lebanon, Lebanese media reports say.
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Lebanese officials and foreign diplomats denounced the bomb attack that injured a minister on Friday, as a grave attack on Lebanon&#39;s democracy.
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World leaders reacted swiftly this afternoon to condemn the assassination of the Lebanese Industry Minister, Pierre Gemayel, a critic of Syria who was shot in his car on the outskirts of Beirut: Saad Hariri , ...Comment
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BEIRUT, Oct 2  - The attempted assassination of a Lebanese politician opposed to Syria&#39;s domination of his country turned the spotlight on Saturday on UN Security Council for an end to foreign meddling in Beirut&#39;s affairs.
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A remote-control Beirut car bomb wounded  a prominent Lebanese opposition politician and killed his  driver Friday, weeks after the former minister quit the  government to protest Syria's grip on Lebanon.
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BEIRUT, Nov. 21 -- Lebanese Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, a vocal opponent of Syrian involvement in the country and a leader of the country's Maronite Christian minority, was assassinated in Beirut today, intensifying an already volatile situation and pushing the country's government a step...
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Gunmen on Tuesday assassinated Lebanese Christian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, plunging Lebanon deeper into a crisis over ties with its dominant neighbor.
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Lebanese Christian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, was assassinated near Beirut on Tuesday, plunging Lebanon deeper into a crisis over ties with its dominant neighbor.
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A powerful bomb killed an anti-Syria lawmaker and six others Wednesday in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut, threatening to derail an effort by an already deeply divided Parliament to elect Lebanon's next president
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A Lebanese television anchor's comments and laughter regarding the assassination of Lebanese anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido have caused a furor and resulted in her firing.
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Hundreds of Lebanese mourners pressed on Wednesday to touch the coffin of minister Pierre Gemayel whose assassination, blamed by his allies on Syria, stoked fears of more killings and a surge in factional violence.
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Lebanon&#39;s new government was &quot;made in Damascus&quot; in defiance of a UN resolution calling for an end to Syria&#39;s interference in Lebanese affairs, a senior US official was quoted on Wednesday as saying.
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BEIRUT: Less than a month after he resigned his post to protest the Syrian-orchestrated extension of President Emile Lahoud's mandate, former Minister Marwan Hamade was targeted by a car bomb that killed one of ...
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Two Lebanese men were shot dead in Baghdad on Friday, a Lebanese Foreign Ministry official said.
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The latest Lebanese assassination has stunned the country and could further delay the election of a new President
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Lebanon mourned on Thursday an anti-Syrian member of parliament whose assassination plunged the country deeper into crisis and threatened to derail efforts to elect a new president.