This fall, like every year, whole families in Lebanon are traveling to their villages of origin to pick a fruit that has long been a national symbol. As they harvest, Israeli bombs and Hezbollah ...
the country's main Christian militia in the 1980s that was an ally of Israel's. That alliance cost him his life. Soon after Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the elder Gemayel was elected president ...
COMMENTARY: The greatest hope of the people of Rmeish is to live in peace. Israel and Hezbollah have other priorities.
At least 20 people were killed in a powerful Israeli strike that flattened a multi-storey building in densely populated ...
MAARAB, Lebanon — There’s no love lost between Lebanese Christian leader Samir Geagea and Hezbollah ... Following an invasion by Israel aimed at smashing Hezbollah, the civil war-era militia commander ...
After the attack, the local mp, a Christian, said he did not want ... each other,” says Asaad Chaftari, a former militia commander during Lebanon’s civil war who is now a peace activist.
His father, Bashir Gemayel, led the Lebanese Forces, the country's main Christian militia in the 1980s that was an ally of ...