Alissar Boulos 2024-05-20 20:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Will the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi have any impact on Lebanon? This is a question many in the country have been asking since the confirmation of the president's and his Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian's disappearance in a helicopter crash on Sunday in Azerbaijan. Asked by This Is Beirut, writer and journalist Mustafa Fahs ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 20:32 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Monday afternoon that it had withdrawn the memorandum it had sent last week to the Ministry of the Interior, asking it to put an end to "inhumane practices" against Syrian migrants in the country. The UNHCR was referring to the security plan implemented by the Ministry since ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 17:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Five people were killed in two consecutive Israeli raids carried out against a residential area in Naqoura, and in Mays al-Jabal in southern Lebanon on Monday. Among those killed were three Hezbollah fighters, whose deaths were announced by the Iran-backed group. A fourth fighter was killed in Israeli raids earlier in the day in Qoussair, Syria, ...
2024-05-20 16:37 - Reading : less than a minute
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri sent a message of condolences on Monday to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, following the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on Sunday. "The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic world, as well as Lebanon, are losing many leading figures who accompanied the revolution as ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 16:25 - Reading : less than a minute
As part of its campaign against businesses, companies and shops managed and operated by Syrian workers in violation of the law, the General Directorate of General Security closed 270 shops and establishments in Mount Lebanon. This operation was carried out by the General Security's division in Mount Lebanon, under the directive of the Public ...
David Hale 2024-05-20 16:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Persistence is a key element in successful diplomacy - persistence in the face of adversity, persistence in applying pressure, and persistence in standing by allies and friends. That quality is distinct from Freud's definition of insanity, that is, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. In the 1990s, sometime ...
Michel Touma 2024-05-20 14:44 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
“The butterfly effect” refers to a phenomenon where an event occurring in one place can trigger significant consequences in a distant area. The Lebanese people have experienced this effect for decades. Now, they face it once again with the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hussein Amir-Abdullahian, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 13:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdallah Bou Habib met with the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ivo Freijsen, to discuss the issue of the Syrian migrant presence in Lebanon. Following the meeting, Bou Habib outlined the terms stated, highlighting his wishes for the UNHCR to stop its interference ...
Maureen Décor 2024-05-20 12:57 - Reading : less than a minute
For over 20 years, the NGO Skoun has been supporting individuals struggling with addictions, offering therapeutic and medical services, while campaigning for better addiction prevention and care in Lebanon.
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 12:26 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Kataeb party Secretary General, Serge Dagher, said Monday that "the message has been received" in reaction to the shooting incident at the party's Central House in Saifi. In his comments to al-Jaddeed TV about yesterday's incident, Dagher added, "The Kataeb Central House has always defended Lebanon and still does, and nothing more will happen ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 10:37 - Reading : less than a minute
The Council of Ministers issued on Monday an administrative memorandum declaring a national mourning following the death of the President of the Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi. The memorandum stated that flags are to be flown at half-mast in all public administrations and municipalities for the next three days. Media stations are also to adjust ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 10:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Lebanon's Tehran-backed Hezbollah group mourned on Monday the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials in a helicopter crash, praising him as a "protector" of anti-Israel groups in the region. "Hezbollah in Lebanon extends its deepest condolences," the group said in a statement, adding that they knew Raisi "closely for a long ...