Topic: Lebanese Armed Forces
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lebanon's political turmoil will not trigger an immediate cut in U.S. aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces but will likely sharpen U.S. Congressional scrutiny of how the money is used, analysts said on Wednesday.Ministers from Hezbollah ...
France should scrap its planned sale to Lebanon of 100 anti-tank missiles because they could end up being used by the powerful militant group Hezbollah against Israel, a US lawmaker said Wednesday.Democratic Representative Steve Rothman urged French President Nicolas Sarkozy in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. lawmaker lifted a hold Friday on U.S. funding for Lebanon's military, saying he was persuaded it had taken steps that would avoid a repeat of August's deadly border clash between Lebanese and Israeli ...
Amid rising US-Lebanon tensions, a top US lawmaker asked the Pentagon in a letter released Wednesday for assurances that military aid from Washington is not indirectly helping Hezbollah.House Armed Services Committee chairman Ike Skelton, a Democrat, wrote Defense Secretary Robert Gates ...
A top US congressman has blocked 100 million dollars in aid to Lebanon's military, saying he cannot be sure the country's armed forces are not working with Hezbollah.Howard Berman, the Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said ...
Lebanese army officer says signals detected from black boxes on Ethiopian jet that crashedThe Lebanese Army said investigators have detected signals from the black boxes of an Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed and will attempt to retrieve them in coming days.An ...
In December, the Lebanese Web site Qifa Nabki featured a satirical " According to the article, the U.S. gifted "cutting edge" military material to the Lebanese Armed Forces that included camouflage-print bandages and, more menacingly, the USS Tadpole, a decommissioned World War ...
The United States plans to deliver M-50 tanks to Lebanon in spring next year as part of a commitment to help the country's army, a senior US state department official said in Beirut on Friday.David Hale, US deputy assistant secretary ...
