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Grand Serail Hosts High-Level Meeting on Lebanon Recovery Fund

This is Beirut, 25/06 19:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Grand Serail hosted a strategic meeting on the Lebanon Recovery Fund (LRF), a UN-managed financing mechanism designed to coordinate international grant-based support for Lebanon’s post-crisis reconstruction and recovery. Representatives from relevant ministries and United Nations agencies attended the session, headed by Prime Minister Nawaf ...

Israel and Iran: A Conflict Fueled by Desire

David Sahyoun, 25/06 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam War Iran Psychoanalysis Desire

“The master’s discourse is one that refuses to acknowledge its unconscious.” – Jacques Lacan The war we are witnessing today is fought as much through scorched landscapes as through language. What is unfolding between Iran and Israel is not simply a military or geopolitical confrontation – it is a war of discourse. Each side constructs ...

Israel Designates Iran Central Bank 'Terror Organization'

This is Beirut, 25/06 17:04 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israel's defence minister on Wednesday designated Iran's central bank a "terror organization," saying the move was aimed at halting financing for Iran-backed militant groups the day after a ceasefire between the two foes took hold. Minister Israel Katz "signed a special order designating Iran's central bank, two ...

US-Iran: What Is Next?

David Hale , 25/06 15:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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While most international media are focused on what will happen today or this week between America and Iran, the real story is much bigger—the complete turning of the tables on Iran. While the headlines focus on whether Trump's ceasefire will hold, too many commentators are losing sight of the fact that Iran is trying to surrender (without ...

Hezbollah’s Hollow Promises in South Lebanon

This is Beirut, 25/06 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Hezbollah South Lebanon Funds Compensation

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 ...

How the US Carried Out Its Strikes on Iran

This is Beirut, 25/06 14:30 - Reading : less than a minute

Nawaf Salam Iran Trump nuclear sites

The United States took military action against Iran's nuclear program, on Saturday, June 21, and carried out strikes that caused “extremely severe damage” to three of Iran's nuclear facilities. Here’s what we know about how the “Midnight Hammer” operation unfolded. https://x.com/ThisIsBeirut_/status/1937834911559262321  

World Bank Announces Lebanon, Syria Reconstruction Projects

This is Beirut, 25/06 14:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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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 ...

Turkey Breathes Easier as Iran-Israel Truce Eases Fallout Risk

This is Beirut, 25/06 13:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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As the fragile Iran-Israel truce took hold, there was no letup in Turkey's diplomatic efforts Wednesday to prevent any return to a conflict fraught with risk for Ankara's domestic and regional policies. Hours after US President Donald Trump announced the ceasefire, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met him for talks on the sidelines of a ...

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