This Is Beirut 26/03 18:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued sanctions on Tuesday targeting finance and trade facilitators for the Syrian regime, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Houthis and Hezbollah. In two separate announcements, the US treasury listed six entities, one individual and two tankers that are based or registered in ...
Johnny Kortbawi 26/03 16:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Abdallah Bou Habib might be the victim of a series of circumstances that reduced him to puppet status at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but what is certain is that he does not even play puppet well. Bou Habib is a reactionary man, one who speaks on impulse and then goes on to retract his words. Unlike the chewing gum he spat out at the recent ...
This Is Beirut 26/03 16:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
In retaliation to Hezbollah’s attack on the Meron air base, the Israeli Army announced that it had hit Baalbeck. An Israeli airstrike targeted Wadi Fuara near the city of Hermel, where the sound of explosions was heard and plumes of smoke were observed, according to the National News Agency (NNA). Simultaneously, an Israeli airstrike targeted a ...
This Is Beirut 26/03 14:03 - Reading : less than a minute
A southern citizen of the town of Rmeich "stood up to a group of Hezbollah members who were about to install a rocket launcher in the town," according to information obtained by This is Beirut. According to the same source, young people from the municipality of Rmeich "confronted a group of Hezbollah members, one of whom fired two shots in the ...
This Is Beirut 26/03 12:15 - Reading : less than a minute
A former minister close to the Syrian regime has revealed that Iran recently decided to reduce the number of its experts in Syria from 1,700 to less than two hundred, without divulging the reasons behind this decision. Sources have also indicated that, despite their alliance, relations between Syria and Iran are neither healthy nor stable and are ...
This Is Beirut 26/03 10:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tayr Harfa has been subjected to dozens of airstrikes since the beginning of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, which resulted in the destruction of homes in the town. On Tuesday at dawn, the Israeli warplanes targeted an uninhabited house in the town of Tayr Harfa, resulting in three minor injuries among the Civil Defense paramedics, who ...
26/03 08:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Moderate Bloc's initiative for breaking the presidential deadlock suffered a significant setback from those who had initially blessed it. Despite widespread support from opposition forces, the initiative quickly stumbled over procedural glitches, including who should convene and preside consultation sessions, and who should ensure the ...
This Is Beirut 25/03 20:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanese Forces party leader Samir Geagea highlighted, "This year, we are living through the path of suffering and pain in Gaza, where children, men and women are dying. We are living through the path of suffering and pain with Ukraine and Sudan." Geagea spoke after the annual recital in Maarab held during the Holy Week, stating that "Lebanon is ...
Michel Touma 25/03 16:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
During the disastrous days of Syrian occupation, a French journalist in Beirut rightly noted that the Assad regime couldn't bring the Lebanese press to kneel or shake its unwavering commitment to freedom of expression. After the deployment of Syrian forces in June 1976 and following the election of late Elias Sarkis as president, the ...
This Is Beirut 25/03 14:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanese Forces MP Fadi Karam sounded the alarm over the growing dangers of illegal Syrian presence in Lebanon, which is increasingly “threatening the country’s mere structure.” Speaking at an LF-organized workshop on "Illegal Syrian Presence" held in Amioun, in North Lebanon’s district of Koura, Karam said that the Union of ...
This Is Beirut 24/03 18:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The exchange of fire continued between Israel and Hezbollah on Sunday until late afternoon, following a day marked by intense Israeli airstrikes. Ali Mohammad Faqih, a man from Nasriyeh, was killed in an Israeli raid on the village of Odaisseh. Israeli military planes targeted a house on the outskirts of the village of Aita al-Shaab without any ...
This Is Beirut 24/03 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Metropolitan Archbishop of Beirut Elias Audi wondered about the identity of those who obstruct the election of a President "since everyone claims to facilitate the electoral process and calls for the vote to happen." "If all the MPs are convinced of holding the election, then why don't they head to Parliament and elect a President as stated in ...