This Is Beirut 21/05 13:28 - Reading : less than a minute
The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Lebanon announced that it will open a register of condolences on Wednesday, May 22 and Thursday, May 23, from 4 PM to 7 PM, at the embassy's headquarters in Bir Hassan, following the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and the accompanying ...
This Is Beirut 21/05 13:22 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on Monday the appointment of Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert of the Netherlands as his new Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL). She succeeds Joanna Wronecka of Poland, who held this position since 2021. "Currently serving as ...
21/05 09:06 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
US Ambassador to Lebanon Lisa Johnson, who recently returned from Washington after consultations with her administration, reportedly carried a shortlist of highly qualified presidential candidates, carefully kept under wraps and numbering no more than a select few. These candidates are expected to meet political parties at a strategically ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 21:06 - Reading : less than a minute
Caretaker Minister of Interior and Municipalities Bassam Mawlawi issued a decree on Monday prohibiting Syrian migrants and refugees from leasing agricultural land. The document, distributed to the various Lebanese governorates, states that the Ministry has observed a "widespread" phenomenon in "most Lebanese areas" and "territories" where Syrian ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 21:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Syrian registered truck carrying weapons was intercepted by security forces on Monday after catching fire on the Batroun highway, north of Beirut. According to preliminary information, an electrical short caused the truck transporting goods to catch fire. Firefighting teams from the Lebanese Civil Defense rushed to the scene to extinguish the ...
Alissar Boulos 20/05 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 20/05 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 20/05 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, ...
20/05 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 20/05 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 20/05 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 20/05 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, ...