Once a Christian militant in Lebanon's civil war, now he builds peace where he fought Brooke Anderson - Catholic News Service May 31, 2017 Martyrs Square, Beirut, Lebanon 1982.

With pen and paper in hand, it took Assaad Chaftari five minutes at his home nestled in a cluster of pine trees in the mountains overlooking Beirut to write a public apology for his role in the ...

A former Lebanese Christian warlord held responsible for a massacre of Palestinian refugees 20 years ago that for many symbolizes the outrages of Lebanon's civil war was killed Thursday in a car ...

Ain al-Remmaneh is the neighborhood where a Christian militia shot up a bus on April 13, 1975, a massacre that is often presented as the spark that ignited the civil war. “The idea of a new war ...

Christian rivals from the Lebanese civil war, Samir Geagea and Suleiman Frangieh, shook hands with each other on Wednesday, marking a formal reconciliation to end more than four decades of enmity.

During the Lebanese Civil War of the 1970s and 1980s, Assaad Chaftari served as a soldier and an intelligence official for the Christian militia. He was responsible for the death of many Lebanese ...

BEIRUT – Two rival Lebanese Christian leaders reconciled Wednesday ending four decades of enmity triggered by a massacre of dozens during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war. Samir Geagea, leader of ...

The leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party denied on Thursday his group has any fighters, rebutting claims by Shi'ite Hezbollah that he has assembled a militia as the fallout of deadly ...