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 ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-26 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 ...
2024-03-26 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 2024-03-25 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 ...