The presidency said Salam, currently outside the country and due to return ... LATE The prime minister must be a Sunni Muslim according to Lebanon's sectarian power-sharing system, which parcels ...

Lebanon’s parliament has chosen the head of the country’s armed forces ... (The system says the prime minister is supposed to be Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament Shia Muslim.) ...

CAIRO (Reuters) -Lebanon is set to extradite the son of late senior Muslim cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi to the United Arab Emirates after the country's caretaker cabinet approved the move on Tuesday ...

Since then, the country’s GDP has shrunk by ... a Sunni Muslim prime minister and a Shi’ite Muslim speaker of Parliament. Joseph Aoun is Lebanon’s 14th president and the fifth army commander ...

which the World Bank estimates cost the country $8.5 billion. Lebanon’s system of government requires the new president to convene consultations with lawmakers to nominate a Sunni Muslim prime ...

He promised to rebuild south Lebanon and other parts of the country he said had been destroyed ... and the wider Middle East, with Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah badly pummelled from last year's war ...

Lebanon has a unique power-sharing system to secure representation of the country's different communities ... the prime minister should be a Sunni Muslim and the house speaker should be a Shiite ...

Lebanon is set to extradite the son of late senior Muslim cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi to the United Arab Emirates after the country’s caretaker cabinet approved the move on Tuesday, the Lebanese ...