This Is Beirut 2024-04-08 13:42 - Reading : less than a minute
House Speaker Nabih Berri apologized on Monday for "not accepting Eid al-Fitr congratulatory visits due to the current situation." He wished all Lebanese, in general, and Muslims, in particular, a blessed Eid.
This Is Beirut 2024-04-08 13:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah continued relentlessly on Monday, six months after the front in South Lebanon was opened by the pro-Iranian party to support Hamas in Gaza. The Israeli military said that it killed a Hezbollah commander, identified as Ali Ahmed Hussein of Hezbollah's elite Radwan Forces, in an overnight airstrike on the town ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-08 12:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Six months after the opening of Hezbollah’s so-called “support front” for Gaza in south Lebanon, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka and UNIFIL’s Commander Aroldo Lázaro deplored in a joint statement on Monday that "violence and suffering has gone on too long." “It must stop," the statement hammered, urgently appealing ...
2024-04-08 12:36 - Reading : less than a minute
The Member of Parliament for the Lebanese Forces, Razi el-Hage, speaks following the kidnapping on Sunday of Pascal Sleiman, the LF coordinator in Jbeil.
Hala Abdallah 2024-04-08 11:43 - Reading : less than a minute
Members and supporters of the Lebanese Forces are currently protesting in Jbeil following the abduction of LF coordinator Pascal Sleiman on Sunday.
Maxime Pluvinet 2024-04-08 11:18 - Reading : less than a minute
As the influx of illegal migrants to Cyprus from the Lebanese shores reached record highs, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides arrived in Beirut on Monday morning to address this thorny issue with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati during a meeting at the Grand Serail, which was also attended by the Commander in Chief of the Army, General ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-08 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 2024-04-08 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 2024-04-07 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 2024-04-07 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 2024-04-07 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 ...
2024-04-07 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 ...