2024-05-21 18:53 - Reading : less than a minute
Tensions continued on Tuesday in the border regions of southern Lebanon. The Israeli army's Arabic-speaking spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, announced on Tuesday morning that Israel eliminated the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in the Tyre region, Kassem Saklawi. On the platform X, Adraee specified that Saklawi was "in charge of planning ...
2024-05-21 18:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The former head of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), Walid Joumblatt, said from Doha on Tuesday that it is “inevitable for the (Lebanese) political forces to agree, with the help of the Quintet (USA, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar) to elect a president on the basis of dialogue and consensus.” Joumblatt made his remarks during a ...
Johnny Kortbawi 2024-05-21 18:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A few months ago, when conditions could lead to the election of a president of the republic, the obstinacy of the political parties in Lebanon sabotaged the opportunity. Each faction adamantly stuck to its candidate, rejecting any negotiations or changes in its position. With time, and with the eruption of the crisis in Gaza on October 7 and its ...
2024-05-21 17:37 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Some 304 Turkish-made handguns were found in a truck filled with goods sent by sea from Turkey to the port of Tripoli. According to information shared by the security forces, the weapons were concealed on both sides of the truck’s engine whose heat set fire to the handguns as the handles are made of plastic. Empty gun magazines were also ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 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 2024-05-21 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 ...
2024-05-21 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 2024-05-20 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 2024-05-20 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 2024-05-20 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 2024-05-20 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 2024-05-20 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, ...