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Israeli Airstrikes on December 8 Expose Hezbollah’s Extensive Tunnel Network in Southern Lebanon

This is Beirut 2025-12-10 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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On the night of December 8, the Israeli military carried out airstrikes in the Iqlim al-Tuffah area, north of the Litani River, in a region located north of Nabatiyeh and southwest of Jezzine. The strikes targeted multiple sites, including a training compound belonging to Hezbollah’s Radwan Unit and several rocket-launch locations. A report ...

Football: At 38, Champion and Two-Time MVP, Messi Refuses to Slow Down

Makram Haddad 2025-12-10 14:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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At 38 years old, Lionel Messi has just delivered the first title in Inter Miami’s history in Major League Soccer, while also securing a second consecutive MVP trophy. Champion, best player, record-breaker: even in exile in Florida, the Argentine continues to push the limits of time and statistics. Lionel Messi did not cross the Atlantic to ...

Lebanon on Edge as Israel Raises the Stakes

Bassam Abou Zeid 2025-12-12 20:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The run-up to the mechanism meeting scheduled for December 19 is shaping up to be particularly tense—and for good reason. Israel has been gathering extensive data on Hezbollah’s efforts to rebuild its military capabilities. Israeli representative Yury Reisnick is expected to present these findings to the head of the Lebanese delegation, former ...

Lebanon’s Collective Trauma Needs Peace

Salam El Zaatari 2025-12-11 15:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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There was an unmistakable irony on Monday as Lebanon’s “Sunni street” marked the first anniversary of the fall of the Bashar al Assad regime. The same community that has condemned its Shia counterparts for venerating Iran’s rulers now engages in the same political canonization, this time for Syria’s new leaders. The motorbike convoys ...

Beirut Sports Festival: Karim Andari Invests 4 Billion LBP to Support 80 Students Through “Loubnaniyoun”

Makram Haddad 2025-12-11 16:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Sports are stepping into the classroom. At the Qubic Center in Horch Tabet, the president of the Beirut Sports Festival, Karim Andari, and the president of the association “Loubnaniyoun,” Nadine Daher, formalized an unprecedented partnership: 4 billion Lebanese pounds granted to the NGO to cover school fees for 80 students from various regions ...

French Indie Title 'Clair Obscur' Dominates Game Awards

This is Beirut 2025-12-12 09:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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French indie title "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" dominated the annual Game Awards in Los Angeles, winning a record of nine categories, including best video game of the year. "What a weird timeline for us," Guillaume Broche of video game studio Sandfall Interactive quipped, thanking his team as he accepted the top award. "And also I want to ...

Netanyahu: Trump Meeting to Focus on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria

This is Beirut 2025-12-12 16:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to arrive in Washington on Monday, December 29, for talks with President Donald Trump, focusing on regional developments, including the Trump administration’s plan for Gaza and rising tensions with Lebanon. On Sunday, Netanyahu said he expects the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan to be ...

WSJ: Ex-Syrian General Jamil Hassan Hiding in Lebanon

This is Beirut 2025-12-12 17:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Maj. Gen. Jamil Hassan, the former head of Syria’s Air Force Intelligence and one of the most wanted figures of the Assad regime, is believed to be hiding in Lebanon after fleeing Syria last December, according to an investigation published by The Wall Street Journal. Hassan, long considered a central architect of the regime’s repression, ...

Three Separatist Fighters Killed In Drone Strike As Yemen's Government Coalition Fractures

This is Beirut 2025-12-12 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A drone strike killed three separatist Yemeni fighters on Friday, their commander told AFP, blaming rival Islamist forces they had dislodged from large areas. The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council last week swept through swathes of Yemen in a near-bloodless takeover they say aimed to expel Islamists and halt smuggling for the benefit of ...

Christmas in South Lebanon: Villages Orphaned of Their Youth

Katia Kahil 2025-12-21 11:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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In the villages of South Lebanon, Christmas flickers like a fragile flame. Despite the ever-present fear and palpable tension, church bells toll and evening gatherings are held. In Alma al-Shaab, Yaroun, Deir Mimas, Khiam, and Marjayoun, garlands and nativity scenes timidly pierce the deserted streets. Once alive with laughter and reunion, these ...

Israel Strikes Southern, Eastern Lebanon

This is Beirut 06/01 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The Israeli military said Monday it launched strikes on military infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah and Hamas in the Sidon district, north of the Litani River.   Following the attack, rescue and ambulance teams rushed to the scene. Members of the Popular Rescue Regiment affiliated with the Maarouf Saad Foundation evacuated a wounded ...

Ahead of 2026, Washington's Tougher Terms for Lebanon

Amal Chmouny 2025-12-31 17:10 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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Heading into 2026, U.S. engagement in Lebanon has become explicitly conditioned on measurable progress toward Hezbollah’s disarmament, marking a clear break from the strategic ambiguity that long defined Washington’s approach. The aftermath of the 2024 Israel–Hezbollah conflict, alongside Lebanon’s deepening economic and political crises, ...

Iran President Tells Government Listen to Protesters 'Legitimate Demands'

This is Beirut 2025-12-30 10:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Iran's president urged his government to listen to the "legitimate demands" of protesters, state media reported Tuesday, after demonstrations by shopkeepers in Tehran over economic hardship. Shopkeepers in the capital shut their stores on Monday, after Iran's embattled currency hit new lows on the unofficial market. Photos from ...

From Gaza to Iran: Trump and Netanyahu Review Regional Flashpoints

This is Beirut 2025-12-30 11:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held wide-ranging talks in Florida on Monday, addressing key regional crises including Gaza, Iran, Syria, and broader Middle East stability, as both leaders signaled continued strategic alignment despite ongoing regional tensions. The meeting, held at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ...

Trump, Netanyahu Signal Hard Line on Lebanon as Hezbollah Disarmament Takes Center Stage

This is Beirut 2025-12-30 11:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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U.S. President Donald Trump signaled a tougher stance toward Hezbollah following talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday in Florida, warning that the group is “behaving badly” and stressing that efforts to disarm it remain a central focus of U.S. policy toward Lebanon. Speaking after the meeting at his ...

Jailed Turkish Kurd Leader Calls on Government to Broker Deal for Syrian Kurds

This is Beirut 2025-12-30 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Jailed Turkish Kurd leader Abdullah Ocalan said Tuesday that it was "crucial" for Turkey's government to broker a peace deal between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Damascus government. Clashes between Syrian forces and the SDF have cast doubt over a deal to integrate the group's fighters into the army, which was due to ...

Iran Designates Royal Canadian Navy a Terrorist Organisation

This is Beirut 2025-12-30 13:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The Iranian foreign ministry designated the Royal Canadian Navy a terrorist organisation on Tuesday in what it said was retaliation for Canada's 2024 blacklisting of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. In a statement, the ministry said that the move was in reaction to Ottawa declaring the Guards, the ideological arm of Iran's military, a terror group ...

Syria Arrests 21 Linked to Assad Rule as Curfew Covers Port City

This is Beirut 2025-12-31 10:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Authorities in Syria's Latakia province arrested 21 people allegedly linked to ousted leader Bashar al-Assad's rule on Tuesday, state media reported, as a curfew blanketed the provincial capital after sectarian violence the previous night. Monday's attacks in predominantly Alawite neighbourhoods of Latakia city came after three people ...

Deadlock in the Second Phase of the State Monopoly on Arms

Bassam Abou Zeid 2025-12-31 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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By the last day of 2025, the Lebanese government was expected to have completed the disarmament of Hezbollah nationwide, following a decision made at a Cabinet meeting at the Presidential Palace on August 5. The official statement tasked the Lebanese Army with drawing up an operational plan to restore the monopoly of weapons exclusively to the ...

De-Radicalizing Hezbollah's Base: A Realist Framework

Salam El Zaatari 2025-12-29 13:15 - Reading : 8 minute(s)

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Any serious discussion about de-radicalizing Hezbollah supporters must begin by discarding comforting illusions about the organization. It is not a fringe extremist group operating on the margins of Lebanese society but a heavily armed political-military organization embedded in parliament, municipalities, unions, border economies, and a regional ...

Yemen's Separatists Say Fighting 'Existential' War Against Saudi-Backed Forces

This is Beirut 02/01 16:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Yemen's UAE-backed separatists said they were fighting a critical war against Islamists and Al-Qaeda extremists supported by Saudi Arabia, their military spokesman said on Friday. "This war is decisive and existential," Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed Al-Naqib said in a statement, after the Saudi-led coalition launched airstrikes and ...

Iran: The Regime Falters as Fear Shifts

Natasha Metni Torbey 02/01 17:35 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

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In Iran, today’s protests are no longer a part of a long series of crises that the Islamic Republic has, over decades, contained through repression, intimidation, or external distraction. This is different: a deep, gradual, but now unmistakably visible erosion of the regime’s symbolic, ideological, and psychological foundations. This ...

The Wait Is Over: K-Pop Superstars BTS Returns with Album and Global Tour

This is Beirut 02/01 17:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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K-pop megastars BTS will release a new album in March ahead of a world tour, the group announced on Thursday. South Korea's biggest musical act has been on self-described hiatus since 2022, as its members undertook national military service required of all men under the age of 30. All seven members were discharged last year, and the group ...

Syria and Lebanon: Who Is Moving Forward in 2026?

Salam El Zaatari 04/01 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Entering 2026, Syria and Lebanon stand at an inflection point along the region’s active fault line. While both nations shook off paralysis at roughly the same time a year ago, neither has become truly stable. What separates them is the nature of the risks they face in the near and medium-term as the Middle East undergoes uneasy post-war ...

Syria Says Talks on Military Integration of Kurds Inconclusive

This is Beirut 05/01 09:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi held talks with officials in Damascus on Sunday on integrating his forces into the central government, but state media said no tangible results were achieved. Abdi signed a deal in March with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to merge the civil and military institutions of the Kurds' semi-autonomous ...

Lebanon Must Become Independent of Saudi Arabia Too

Hussain Abdul-Hussain 05/01 12:35 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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If Lebanon’s Shia are to finally divorce Iran and reclaim patriotism for their nation, other sects must also place Lebanon’s national interests above the diktats of foreign patrons. That means the Sunnis, the Christian Lebanese Forces, and Walid Jumblatt’s Druze political bloc must end their humiliating dependence on Saudi Arabia. For too ...

Peace with Israel: Lebanon's Path to Economic Revival

Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-12-30 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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An unconditional peace treaty with Israel, inspired by the Abraham Accords' success, could reduce Lebanon’s security risks, unlock billions in foreign investments, revive trade, agriculture, and services, and create jobs—offering economic salvation while preserving Lebanon’s support of Palestinians.  Normalization could boost Lebanon’s ...

Israel's Security Cabinet Approves 19 New Settlements in West Bank

This is Beirut 2025-12-21 13:16 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Israel's security cabinet approved the establishment of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move the country's far-right finance minister said on Sunday was aimed at preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state. The decision brings the total number of settlements approved over the past three years to 69, according to a ...