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Nuclear Partnership and F-35 Sale Cement Saudi Arabia’s New Non-NATO Ally Status
This is Beirut 2025-11-19 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The United States and Saudi Arabia announced a series of significant agreements spanning civil nuclear cooperation, advanced weapons sales, and strategic defense coordination during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s high-profile visit to the White House. The meetings marked the Saudi leader’s first official White House visit in more than ...
Israeli Minister Calls for Abbas’s Arrest if UN Vote Endorses Palestinian State
This is Beirut 2025-11-17 23:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Monday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to arrest Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas if the UN Security Council votes in favor of Palestinian statehood. "If they accelerate the recognition of this fabricated state, if the UN recognizes this, you, Mr. Prime Minister, must ...
Lebanon Faces Donor Backlash After Decision Extending Disability Benefits to Hezbollah Fighters
Tylia El Helou 2025-11-18 20:30 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
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Lebanon is facing mounting diplomatic backlash after the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) extended state and donor-funded disability benefits to the thousands of Hezbollah fighters wounded in Israel’s September 2024 operation targeting Hezbollah’s communication devices. What the ministry described as a humanitarian exemption is now being ...
Trump and MBS Seal Major Economic and Military Partnerships
This is Beirut 2025-11-18 18:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Donald Trump received Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Tuesday with full protocol honors, marking his first visit to Washington since 2018. The U.S. president and the de facto leader of the Saudi kingdom made multiple announcements during a joint press conference, covering massive investments, the sale of advanced weaponry, and ...
Sayyid Qutb: From the Muslim Brotherhood to Global Influence
Marie de La Roche Saint-André 2025-11-18 15:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Born in 1906 into a devout family in a village of Upper Egypt, he studied educational sciences, much like Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder. Alongside his career as a teacher and civil servant in the Ministry of Education, Sayyid Qutb gained recognition as a literary figure, moving within Egypt’s intellectual circles, including ...
Sale of F-35s to Riyadh: A New Test for U.S. Alliances in the Middle East
Mario Chartouni 2025-11-18 14:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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On the eve of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington, Donald Trump announced Monday his intention to approve the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. “We are going to sell F-35s,” the president declared from the White House, praising ties with Riyadh and describing the kingdom as “a great ally.” The announcement ...
Two Newly Discovered Bach Organ Works Unveiled in Germany
This is Beirut 2025-11-18 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were unveiled in Germany on Monday in a discovery described as a "great moment for the world of music." The two solo organ works, written while Bach was working as an organ teacher in the town of Arnstadt in Thuringia early in his career, first caught the attention of ...
UN Security Council Votes for International Force for Gaza
This is Beirut 2025-11-18 08:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The UN Security Council voted Monday in favor of a US-drafted resolution bolstering Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan that includes the deployment of an international force and a path to a future Palestinian state. There were 13 votes in favor of the text, which US President Trump said would lead to "further Peace all over the World," with only ...
France Makes 'Historic' Accord to Sell Ukraine 100 Warplanes
This is Beirut 2025-11-17 16:12 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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France's President Emmanuel Macron and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday signed an accord for Kyiv to acquire up to 100 fighter jets and other hardware, including drones, in a boost for Ukraine as it fights Russia's invasion. Delivery of the Rafale fighter jets, the crown jewel of French combat aviation, is only ...
US and Several Arab States Urge 'Swift Adoption' of UN Gaza Resolution
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 19:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The United States and several Arab and Muslim-majority nations, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, called Friday for the UN Security Council to quickly adopt a US resolution endorsing Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza. "The United States, Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Jordan, ...
“Arab Golf” in Riyadh: Silver for Lebanon… and a Seat That Matters
Makram Haddad 2025-11-17 15:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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JSI Riyadh, immaculate fairways, high-level field: the Lebanese delegation did not flinch. Over two rounds played at the Riyadh Golf Club, Lebanon totaled 314 strokes (158 + 156) and claimed the second step of the podium, edging out a dense pack of Arab competitors. With the flag waving and silver medals around their necks, the national team ...
Syrians in Lebanon: Returns Rise, But New Arrivals Continue
Samar El-Kadi 2025-11-17 12:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nearly a year after the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, the debate over the future of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has reignited. As conditions inside Syria evolve, Lebanon and international organizations – namely the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) – are coordinating ...
Carbon Capture Promoters Turn Up in Numbers at COP30
This is Beirut 2025-11-17 09:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Companies and groups backing carbon-capture technology, which critics slam as an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels, have deployed more than 500 participants to the COP30 climate talks, according to a list compiled by an NGO and shared exclusively with AFP. The list, assembled by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), names oil ...
UN Security Council Set to Vote on International Force for Gaza
This is Beirut 2025-11-17 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The UN Security Council is set to vote Monday on a US-drafted resolution bolstering Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan, especially the deployment of an international force, as Washington warns that a failure to act could lead to renewed fighting. The draft, which has been revised several times as a result of high-stakes negotiations, "endorses" the ...
Disarmament and the End of the Militia’s Whims
Michel Touma 2025-11-17 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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In a moment of deep existential crisis, there is no space for hesitation, for diluted choices or for timid calculations. When a nation’s future is pulled apart by forces bent on destabilization and backed blindly by regional powers with sweeping ambitions, the responsibility is clear. One must choose a side and do so without wavering. The ...
Aoun calls for Urgent UN Complaint Against Israel
This is Beirut 2025-11-15 18:55 - Reading : less than a minute
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President Joseph Aoun has asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Youssef Raji, to instruct Lebanon’s permanent mission to the United Nations to file an urgent complaint with the Security Council against Israel, which has begun building a concrete wall along Lebanon’s southern border that extends beyond the Blue Line drawn after ...
UN Security Council to Vote Monday on Trump Gaza Plan
This is Beirut 2025-11-15 14:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The UN Security Council will vote Monday on a resolution endorsing US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan, diplomats said. Last week the Americans officially launched negotiations within the 15-member Security Council on a text that would follow up on a ceasefire in the two-year war between Israel and Hamas and endorse Trump's plan. A draft ...
Beirut Readies for a Historic Papal Mass
This is Beirut 2025-12-02 07:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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More than 120,000 people are expected to attend Pope Leo XIV's mass in Beirut on Tuesday, the final day of his Lebanon visit and a chance to pay his respects at the site of the huge 2020 port explosion. The pontiff arrived from Turkey on Sunday on his inaugural visit abroad as pope and brought a message of hope, particularly to young people in ...
Saudi Powers Forward with Deficit Spending to Fund Reforms
This is Beirut 2025-12-02 22:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia greenlit its 2026 budget Tuesday, projecting a deficit of 165 billion riyals ($44 billion) as the kingdom presses on with an ambitious spending drive to diversify its oil-dependent economy. The Arab world's largest economy is overseeing a major push to slash its dependence on oil revenues, with officials pouring billions into ...
Mamdani: Debunking the Fallacies of an Islamist Demagogue
Charles Chartouni 2025-11-10 17:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The New York elections attest to the ubiquitousness of domestic political events in a globalized era and more specifically in New York City, which recapitulates the promises, illusions, and contradictions of the global era. The overlapping variables of the urban order and its economic, social, cultural, and religious factors coalesce to define the ...
Aoun Urges Hezbollah to “Act Rationally”, Reaffirming State Monopoly on Weapons
This is Beirut 13/01 08:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun delivered one of his clearest and most direct statements to date on Hezbollah’s arms on Sunday, urging the militia to “act rationally” and fully integrate into the Lebanese state. In a televised interview marking the second anniversary of his election, Aoun laid out his vision for restoring state ...
What Iran’s Fate Could Mean for Hezbollah and Lebanon
Marwan El Amine 16/01 11:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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As Iran’s nationwide protest movement intensifies, a key question is dominating regional and international discourse: what lies ahead for the Islamist regime if unrest continues, and how might its potential collapse impact Middle Eastern states shaped by four decades of Iranian policy? Since Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, Iran has ...
Exclusive: Lindsey Graham Says Arab States are “Not a Very Good Ally”
This is Beirut 15/01 21:05 - Reading : less than a minute
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Lindsey Graham U.S. Senator (R-South Carolina) and Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said that if Arab countries intervened on Iran’s behalf to block U.S. military action in Tehran, then “they are not a very good ally,” warning that such behavior would call future partnerships into question. He added that he believes “the regimes ...
Hamas Says Technocratic Committee Key to Consolidating Gaza Truce
This is Beirut 15/01 15:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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A senior Hamas official on Thursday welcomed the formation of a technocratic committee to govern post-war Gaza, saying it would help consolidate the ceasefire and prevent a return to fighting. Egypt, a mediator in indirect ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, announced the formation of a 15-member Palestinian technocratic committee that ...
Lebanon’s Disarmament Gamble: Fragile Gains and Uncertain Path Forward
Amal Chmouny 15/01 13:30 - Reading : 9 minute(s)
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Lebanon is preparing to confiscate Hezbollah’s weapons north of the Litani River, a step that will test whether the state has the capacity to follow through on the government’s stated commitment to disarm the group. On January 8, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) announced that it had completed the disarmament of Hezbollah south of the Litani. ...
The Iranian Diaspora: A Key Force in a Globalized Protest
Sana Richa Choucair 14/01 12:55 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
As Iran’s authorities scramble to repress a growing uprising through violence and information blackouts, the country’s diaspora has emerged as a crucial front in the confrontation with the regime, combining media outreach, international lobbying, and economic leverage. Since December 28, 2025, Iran has been gripped by a wave of protests of ...
U.S. Strike in Venezuela a Blow to Hezbollah’s Revival Efforts
Ian Talley 13/01 15:30 - Reading : 218 minute(s)
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The United States dealt Iran and its proxy Hezbollah a strategic blow over the weekend by seizing key ally, Venezuela’s strongman Nicolás Maduro. While the dominant narrative of the complex military strike has focused on its framing as a counternarcotics operation and aggressive energy politics, coverage has largely missed a critical strategic ...
Syrian Forces Push Out Kurdish Fighters as U.S. Hits ISIS
This is Beirut 12/01 09:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syrian government forces have detained 300 Kurds and evacuated more than 400 Kurdish fighters after clashes in Aleppo, the interior ministry has said, as U.S. and allied forces carried out separate “large-scale” strikes against Islamic State targets. An interior ministry official told Agence France-Presse that about 360 Kurdish ...
Who are the Shia Opposition Seeking to Break Hezbollah’s Stranglehold?
Claudia Groeling 16/01 19:29 - Reading : 9 minute(s)
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Lebanon’s upcoming parliamentary elections, coming on the heels of the 2024 Hezbollah–Israel war that devastated the organization and its core constituencies, have reopened the question of Shia political representation. For decades, Lebanese political discourse has treated the Shia community as a unified political bloc, electorally ...
Egypt-Lebanon Gas Deal: Israeli Gas at the Heart of the Agreement
Claudia Groeling 09/01 12:50 - Reading : 83 minute(s)
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Two eastern Mediterranean natural gas deals announced twelve days apart highlight shifting energy dynamics amid dramatic geopolitical transformations in the region, with Lebanon aiming to benefit. On December 17, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a $35 billion gas deal with Egypt, describing the agreement as ...