Natasha Metni Torbey, 26/06 16:25 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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As Israeli airstrikes and drone attacks continue to pound South Lebanon, a strategic front is rapidly emerging. Israel is now openly targeting Hezbollah’s financial infrastructure, marking a shift from battlefield confrontation to economic warfare. This week was a turning point. On Wednesday, the Israeli military released an unprecedented map ...
This is Beirut, 26/06 11:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Tensions along the Lebanese border with Israel escalated on Wednesday, with a series of Israeli military operations. An Israeli drone strike targeted a “Bobcat” excavator between the towns of Shaqra and Baraachit, killing one person. Another strike was reported on a motorcycle in Beit Lif killing one person. It’s ...
This is Beirut, 25/06 20:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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According to MTV, United States Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack informed Lebanese officials, during his visit to Beirut on June 19, that a government’s public commitment to disarming Hezbollah would significantly advance the issue of Israeli withdrawal from the five hills at the border. This effort, he asserted, would ...
This is Beirut, 25/06 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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In the villages of southern Lebanon, a fragile calm masks deep anger. In Blat, Khiam, Kfarchouba and Marjayoun, homes remain gutted, shops shuttered and families shattered. Months after the bombings, reconstruction stalls, suffocated by Hezbollah’s failure to deliver on its grand promises to its people. Where the state was absent, the Shia ...
This is Beirut, 25/06 14:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The World Bank announced on Wednesday it had approved $250 million to support Lebanon's post-war reconstruction and a $146 million grant to rehabilitate neighbouring Syria's electricity sector. Lebanon is reeling from last year's devastating war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, while Syria faces massive needs after Islamist-led forces ...
This is Beirut, 25/06 12:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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On Wednesday morning, an Israeli drone targeted a man in the town of Mansouri, south of Tyre. The victim, seriously wounded, was rushed to the Lebanese-Italian Hospital. An explosion was also heard in Saida that same morning, though the cause remains unknown. Meanwhile, Israeli forces opened fire on a truck carrying rubble in the town of Mays ...
This is Beirut, 24/06 16:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea voiced strong support for President Joseph Aoun’s reform agenda during a visit to Baabda Palace on Tuesday, commending what he described as “genuine efforts to build a real state” in Lebanon. In comments after the meeting, Geagea praised the president’s performance over his first five months in ...
Marc Saikali, 24/06 16:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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With the announcement of a ceasefire, Donald Trump blew the final whistle. Twelve days were all it took to upend the geopolitical order of the region. Twelve days of war between Israel and Iran, following years of shadow conflict, thunderous ultimatums and unspoken red lines. Twelve days that reshaped the strategic balance in the Middle East and, ...
Philippe Abi-Akl, 24/06 08:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Amid a rapidly escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, Lebanon has reaffirmed its neutrality, with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri offering personal assurances to US officials that Hezbollah will not intervene. The commitment was relayed directly to President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, underscoring a unified Lebanese stance ...
This is Beirut, 23/06 18:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israeli warplanes launched a series of intense air raids Monday afternoon, striking multiple locations north of the Litani River in southern Lebanon. The strikes targeted a wide area spanning towns and villages in the cazas of Sidon, Nabatieh, Jezzine and Bint Jbeil, including Zarariyeh, Mahmoudiyeh, Wadi Kfar Melki, Ansar, Tibna, Baysariyeh, ...
Michel Touma, 23/06 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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This may apply to individuals, but it is especially true when the future of a nation hangs in the balance. In moments of acute existential crisis, the need for self-examination becomes unavoidable — a time to evaluate past decisions and their consequences. In the uniquely complex case of the Islamic Republic of Iran, this means asking ...
This is Beirut, 22/06 20:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Hezbollah stated in a communiqué that “the U.S. administration sought, through this criminal aggression, to achieve what the Hebrew State failed to accomplish in their ongoing attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran and to compensate for their resounding failure in achieving its goals and in confronting Iran’s painful and ...