Praying and weeping quietly, they doggedly awaited a chance to say farewell to the body of Pierre Gemayel, the Christian Cabinet minister whose assassination has paralyzed a fragile nation.

His driver also was killed. Peirre Gemayel was the sixth politician to be assassinated since the killing of the Prime Minister Rafik Hariri eighteen months ago, reports CBS News foreign ...

including the assassination of President-elect Bachir Gemayel in 1982. Speaking on his first visit to neighbouring Syria since he became Prime Minister in January, Mr Salam said Lebanon also ...

Beirut: Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Beirut for the funeral of murdered politician Pierre Gemayel. The city centre was packed with flag waving mourners as the coffin of the ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday, increasing tensions in Lebanon amid a showdown between opponents ...

who submitted his official resignation earlier today. He is the son of former Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel, who was assassinated in 1982.

including Gemayel's uncle, President-elect Bachir Gemayel, before he assumed office in 1982, journalist Samir Kassir, and respected parliamentary leader and publisher Gibran Tueni. Although ...

BEIRUT: Amine Gemayel was elected to the top Christian post on September 1982, days after the assassination of his brother, President-elect Bachir Gemayel. Gemayels term witnessed the signing of a ...

Separately, Gemayel said the killers of his late brother former President Bachir Gemayel’s have been identified. “The Syrian regime’s fingerprints [on the assassination] are evident.” ...

Bachir Gemayel, the leader of a powerful Christian militia in the Lebanese civil war, was backed by the Reagan Administration, elected as President of Lebanon, and assassinated before he could ...