This Is Beirut 2024-03-27 17:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Informed French sources revealed that Hezbollah rejected the French initiative and refused to respond to it “because it is a document that is biased towards Israel.” However, the sources emphasized that France would continue to play its role in the current stage, based on its participation in the UNIFIL in the South. A French official ...
2024-03-27 15:15 - Reading : less than a minute
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati received an invitation from the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, to attend the 33rd Arab League summit, set to take place on Thursday, May 16, 2024 in Manama. During a meeting on Wednesday, Mikati welcomed Bahraini Ambassador to Syria Waheed Mubarak, delegated by the ruler of the island-state to ...
Michel Touma 2024-03-27 12:17 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In the midst of a persistent chronic and existential crisis, some political factions occasionally resort to subtly propagating truncated or even baseless information. Their aim? Either test public reactions on specific topics or artificially sustain the attention of a partisan public by crafting tailored "information" capable of sparking debate ...
2024-03-27 12:06 - Reading : less than a minute
The historical city of Saida has become renowned in the country for its lively celebrations of Ramadan and its festivals that last all night until sunrise. Full report available via the link in bio.
Ici Beyrouth 2024-03-27 10:16 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hezbollah announced on Wednesday that it had launched "a salvo of rockets at Kiryat Shmona" in northern Israel "in retaliation for the night raid" that killed seven rescue workers at an Islamic emergency and rescue center in Hebbariyeh in southern Lebanon, believed to belong to Jamaa Islamiya. The Jamaa Islamiya press office was quick to react, ...
Maureen Décor 2024-03-27 09:00 - Reading : less than a minute
The price of cocoa has reached 9,000 dollars per ton, a historic figure whose repercussions in Lebanon are likely to be felt in the coming weeks.
This Is Beirut 2024-03-26 20:37 - Reading : less than a minute
The caretaker Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Bassam Mawlawi, chaired a meeting of the Central Internal Security Council to discuss the internal security measures that will be taken during the holidays. "The Director General of the Internal Security Forces, Major General Imad Othman, assured us that a number of measures were decided to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-26 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 2024-03-26 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 2024-03-26 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 2024-03-26 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 2024-03-26 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 ...