This is Beirut 2024-12-09 13:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Samy Gemayel, leader of the Kataeb Party, called on the Lebanese government on Monday to take immediate action to address the fate of Lebanese citizens detained and forcibly disappeared in Syria, describing it as a pressing humanitarian issue. In a letter to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Gemayel posed several critical questions about the matter ...
Michel Touma 2024-12-09 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A chapter of bloodshed and tyranny in Lebanon’s modern history has drawn to a close — a chapter defined by half a century of occupation and killing tyranny. However, today heralds a beacon of hope: an opportunity to seize this historic juncture and flip another equally somber page — the nearly century-long narrative of tumultuous and ...
This is Beirut 2024-12-09 09:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Lebanese Army Hezbollah
An Israeli airstrike targeted a car on Monday morning along the Saf al-Hawa road near a Lebanese Army checkpoint in Bint Jbeil. According to a statement on X by the Lebanese Army, the strike resulted in the death of a civilian and moderate injuries to four soldiers. Additionally, a missile was removed from the highway in the town of ...
Shirine Abdallah 2024-12-09 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Kamal Joumblatt Bashar al-Assad Rafic Hariri Bashir Gemayel René Moawad
Kamal Joumblatt On March 16, 1977, the Druze leader and founder of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), Kamal Joumblatt, was shot dead at the age of 60 in his car near the village of Baakline, in the Shouf mountains. The main suspects are members of the Baath Party and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP). Salim Lawzi A well-known ...
This is Beirut 2024-12-08 21:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hezbollah Lebanese Forces Samir Geagea
Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces Party, considered that “the time for justice has come, not only in Syria but also in Lebanon.” He pointed out that the Assad family’s Syrian administration had thwarted the development of a legitimate state in Lebanon. Geagea used Sunday’s overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime as an ...
This is Beirut 2024-12-08 19:55 - Reading : less than a minute
Hezbollah Lebanese Army USA Nadim Gemayel
On Sunday, MP Nadim Gemayel reaffirmed that “no one is above the Lebanese state” and that “there is no other option for Hezbollah but to surrender its weapons.” “Today, all statues of Assad, his brother, his father, and all his dynasty are falling to the dustbin of history, and we remain,” Gemayel stated during festivities in Sassine ...
Tarek Karam 2024-12-08 19:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hezbollah Kamal Joumblatt USA Bashir Gemayel Syria Bachar el-Assad
It is a dream realized. Today, we will not hide our joy. We will celebrate, cheer and roam the squares. We will gather in Sassine Square, the square of the martyred President Bashir Gemayel, to raise a toast in his honor. We will then pass by the statue of Samir Qassir in downtown Beirut and stop by An-Nahar newspaper to salute Gebran Tueni. From ...
Élie-Joe Kamel 2024-12-08 15:30 - Reading : less than a minute
Syrian refugees living in Beirut expressed cautious optimism after the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Syrian refugees living in Beirut expressed cautious optimism after the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. pic.twitter.com/goh7wrxeLM— This is Beirut (@ThisIsBeirut_) December 8, 2024 With AFP
Elie Ziadé 2024-12-08 15:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Damascus Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah Middle East Tehran
The collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime delivers a major blow to the Iranian axis in the region, with Hezbollah bearing the brunt of the impact. Assad's departure signals the disintegration of the once-aspired "Shia Crescent," which aimed to connect Tehran to Beirut via Baghdad and Damascus. As a new Middle East takes shape ...
This is Beirut 2024-12-08 14:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon Lebanese Army Mikati Syria Detainees
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati stressed on Sunday the urgent need to tighten control on the border with Syria and follow up on the issue of Lebanese citizens believed to have been detained in Syrian prisons. "There is a need to tighten border controls and protect Lebanon from the repercussions of developments in Syria," Mikati said in a ...
Cian Ward 2024-12-08 14:05 - Reading : less than a minute
Crowds celebrating the downfall of Bashar al-Assad flooded the Masnaa crossing on Sunday, as people began to return home to Syria, many for the first time in a decade.
Michel Touma 2024-12-08 13:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Lebanon Kamal Joumblatt Middle East Syria Assad
Four years ago, Lebanon celebrated the centennial of Greater Lebanon’s creation. It is important to acknowledge that almost half of these one hundred years were marked by the unfortunate conflicts with the Assad regime, from the early 1970s to the dramatic downfall of Bashar al-Assad and his regime on December 8, a historic day. Lebanon’s ...