This Is Beirut 08/04 10:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Army Command announced on its X account on Monday afternoon that its intelligence services arrested three Syrians involved in the kidnapping of Lebanese Forces (LF) Jbeil Coordinator Pascal Sleiman on Sunday. The total number of arrests has reached five, following the Lebanese army’s morning announcement of its arrest of two Syrians ...
Michel Touma 08/04 08:54 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
His name has frequently been linked to the iconic oak tree of Ain Treiz, located in the Aley district. Fouad el-Saad, a former MP and minister who passed away on March 27 after a long illness, embodied throughout his political journey a particular facet of Lebanon — one defined by a commitment to the fundamental principles that have long shaped ...
This Is Beirut 07/04 21:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Walid Joumblatt, former head of the Progressive Socialist Party, called on Sunday for a return to the 1949 Armistice Agreements, which imposed a specific zone along the border between the Lebanese and Israelis with restrictions on armaments. He conveyed this matter to the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, in Ain al-Tineh. The purpose of ...
This Is Beirut 07/04 21:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Cypriot Prime Minister, Nikos Christodoulides, is expected to land in Beirut on Monday morning. His official visit will center around finding possible solutions with Lebanese authorities for the incessant flow of displaced Syrians to the island from the Lebanese coast. He will be accompanied by his Minister of Interior and Foreign Affairs, ...
This Is Beirut 07/04 20:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The various Lebanese security services were mobilized on Sunday to find Pascal Sleiman, the Lebanese Forces coordinator in Jbeil, who had been kidnapped earlier in the day near the village of Hakel, in this caza. Sleiman was on his way from Khrabeh, where he was offering condolences to acquaintances, to his own village, Mayfouk, when four armed ...
07/04 16:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tensions escalated in southern Lebanon on Sunday morning when Hezbollah bombarded Israeli positions in the Golan Heights and northern Israel, "targeting the Kileh air defense headquarters and the Yoav missile and artillery base with dozens of Katyusha rockets," according to a Hezb statement. The rockets were launched in response to strikes by ...
07/04 14:39 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Metropolitan Elias Audi criticized Lebanon's leaders and accused them of being "responsible for the high level of corruption and dysfunction that has shaken Lebanon, and then washing their hands of their own actions." During his Sunday sermon, Bishop Audi lashed out against "a system marked by injustice and inequality." He particularly blamed ...
07/04 14:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
During the Sunday Mass in Bkerke, Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai emphasized that the fate of a country to be dragged into war is not in the hands of one entity but rather a collective decision from the state as a whole to protect the country. He stated, "The decision to resort to war should not be taken by a person, a party or a group of ...
07/04 12:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cypriot Prime Minister Nikos Christodoulides is scheduled to meet European Union (EU) President Ursula von der Leyen in Athens on Sunday, before his trip to Beirut on Monday. On the agenda: the influx of Syrian migrants from Lebanon. Nicosia wants to seek Brussels' help in resolving this issue. On Tuesday, the Cypriot President, who is also Prime ...
07/04 10:38 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli fighter jets launched strikes shortly after midnight on Sunday. They targeted a vacant warehouse in the town of Sefri in the Baalbeck district and strategic positions along the eastern Lebanese mountain range near the outskirts of Janta, close to the Lebanese-Syrian border, without causing human casualties. Israel announced that the ...
07/04 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
A new soteriological policy is taking over the Western world. Its origins are academic, albeit unscientific and anti-academic. Blending politics, religion, puritanism and ideology, it echoes the darkest times of witch hunts. In this series of four articles, we will shed light on this new religion that is captivating the Western elites. The topic ...
06/04 22:08 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel in Lebanon accused Lebanese-Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad of “normalization with Israel,” in a statement published on April 3 and picked up by the Hezbollah-affiliated daily al-Akhbar. According to information provided to This Is Beirut, the smear campaign against Mouawad is also affecting the ...