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Bedouins, Not So Nomadic After All
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-07-23 16:50 - Reading : 9 minute(s)
Clashes between Bedouin tribes and Druze factions in Syria’s Sweida province have reignited attention on the political and militarized role of these communities. But across the border in Lebanon, another question emerges: Who are the Lebanese Bedouins? The issue takes on renewed urgency amid reports that several of them, notably from Wadi ...
Lebanon’s Sovereignty Tested at the Syrian Border
Mario Chartouni 2025-08-18 17:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Since mid-August, a viral social media video has shown a man claiming to represent “Syrian tribes” issuing a stark warning to Lebanon: “We will invade Lebanon within 48 hours if Syrian detainees are not released,” referring to Syrians held at Roumieh prison. The threat follows the death of a Syrian inmate on August 14, which sparked ...
Hezbollah’s Arms and the US Ultimatum: Lebanon Faces Critical Decisions
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-06-30 20:10 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The question of Hezbollah’s weapons cannot be resolved solely within Lebanon. As an ideological, military and political extension of Iran, Hezbollah’s arsenal is intrinsically linked to broader regional dynamics, especially the power balance between Tehran and Washington. Experts agree that local initiatives will be ineffective unless ...
Geagea Joins Barrack in Urging Authorities to Take Action on Hezbollah's Weapons
This is Beirut 2025-07-13 10:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Lebanese Forces party leader Samir Geagea responded on Sunday to comments made the previous day by US envoy to Syria and Lebanon Tom Barrack regarding the Lebanese authorities, urging them to take action on disarming Hezbollah. “It is clear and obvious that international policy as a whole, in conjunction with a quasi-consensus among Arab ...
President Aoun Urges EU Support for Sovereignty, Army, Economy
This is Beirut 2025-07-10 19:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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President Joseph Aoun met with a European Union delegation and ambassadors on Thursday, urging them to help Lebanon reclaim its full territory and restore state sovereignty. He warned that without a strong Lebanese Army, “security could crumble across the region,” a scenario “no one desires.” He also called on Brussels to lift all ...
Israeli Drone Strikes and UNIFIL Patrol Incident
This is Beirut 2025-07-10 11:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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An Israeli drone strike targeted a motorcycle at the Mansouri junction in the Tyre district on Monday morning, killing one person and injuring another. Earlier in the day, Israeli artillery shelled the outskirts of the town of Shebaa. Around 2:15 AM on Thursday, an Israeli drone carried out two successive airstrikes on a café and an ...
Benin Bets on Free Vets and Schools to Turn People Away From Jihadism
This is Beirut 2025-07-10 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
In jihadist-threatened north Benin, the army is waging a campaign away from the front -- a program of social projects, including free veterinary care, to tempt locals away from extremism. Located just south of Niger and Burkina Faso -- which together with neighboring Mali form an alleged terrorism epicenter -- Benin's north has come under ...
US Urges Lebanon to Intensify Efforts Against Hezbollah
This is Beirut 2025-07-09 19:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The United States is calling on the Lebanese government to intensify efforts to dismantle Hezbollah’s military capabilities and those of other non-state actors, a US State Department spokesperson revealed in a statement on Wednesday, following US envoy Tom Barrack’s mission in Beirut. “We need the Lebanese state to do more to fully remove ...
Raphaël Rodriguez: The French Chemist Challenging Cancer Cells’ Achilles’ Heel
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-09 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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At the Curie Institute in the heart of Paris, a low-profile chemist is taking on one of the biggest puzzles in modern cancer research. Raphaël Rodriguez, a research director at the CNRS, has spent years investigating how metastatic cells —scattered, dormant tumor cells that often evade treatment — manage to defy medicine. More importantly, he ...
Airport Operations Restored After Cairo Telecom Blaze Disrupts Internet
This is Beirut 2025-07-08 09:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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A major fire erupted at a key telecommunications hub in the Egyptian capital on Monday, the Cairo governorate said in a statement, causing significant phone and internet disruption. The health ministry said in a statement that 14 people had been injured in the fire. The blaze began on the seventh floor of the historic 10-storey telephone ...
King Tut Treasures Restored for Grand Museum Opening
This is Beirut 2025-07-07 11:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh's golden mask in his hands. Years later, the Egyptian conservator found himself gently brushing centuries-old dust off one of Tut's gilded ceremonial shrines — a piece he had only seen in textbooks. "I studied ...
EU, US to Hold Last-Ditch Trade Talks Through Weekend
This is Beirut 2025-07-04 20:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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EU and US negotiators will hold final stretch talks through the weekend as Brussels chases a deal before a July 9 deadline to avoid the return of steep tariffs, diplomats said on Friday. If the European Union does not clinch an agreement with the United States by Wednesday next week, higher levies will snap back in and unleash economic pain on ...
Lebanon Risks Missing the Train
Pierre Nahas 2025-07-04 12:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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There was a time when the idea of Syria normalizing ties with Israel would’ve been laughed out of every Arab capital. Not anymore. Damascus is reportedly engaged in serious discussions to join the Abraham Accords. Once-controversial deals, the Accords now seem like the Middle East’s new baseline. That Syria, of all countries, is entertaining ...
Macron Wants EU-US Trade Deal 'As Soon As Possible'
This is Beirut 2025-07-03 20:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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France's President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that he wanted an EU-US trade deal "as soon as possible, with the lowest tariffs possible", with a Washington-set deadline looming to reach an accord. "The right deal for me is the deal that is struck as soon as possible, with the lowest tariffs possible, and that must be fair and firm," Macron ...
Lebanon’s Sunni Leadership's Void Post-Hariri
Bassam Abou Zeid 2025-07-02 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Lebanon’s Sunni Mufti, Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian, is set to travel to Syria this Saturday, leading a delegation from Dar al-Fatwa to meet Syrian President Ahmad el-Chareh. This visit follows the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, which had kept Syria’s Alawite minority in power for decades. In contrast, Chareh has restored ...
Foreign Fighters Alongside Hezbollah: What Do We Know?
Samar El-Kadi 08/04 11:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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An Israeli drone strike near Naqoura in southern Lebanon last week raised fresh questions about whether foreign combatants, apart from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), are fighting alongside Hezbollah. While Hezbollah announced that the fighters killed in the airstrike were from southern Lebanon, the Israeli military identified ...
The Unfinished Wars
Charles Chartouni 2025-07-14 10:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The regional political scene is quite treacherous, as it conveys misleading signals regarding the outcomes of the ongoing wars in the greater Middle East. American diplomacy remains evasive regarding these wars and their prospects. This uncertainty complicates international relations and makes it challenging for global powers to formulate coherent ...
Israeli Army Detonates Buildings While Retreating from Wadi al-Hujeir
This is Beirut 2024-12-26 20:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Following an Israeli army incursion into southern Lebanon on Thursday, Israeli military vehicles retreated from Wadi al-Hujeir toward the outskirts of Wadi Saluqi. According to al-Jadeed television, the Israeli army also detonated two houses in the towns of Yaroun in the Bint Jbeil caza and Kfar Kila in the Marjayoun caza. The Lebanese Army ...
Two Telecom Transmission Stations Destroyed by Israeli Bombings
This Is Beirut 2024-10-02 13:59 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two transmission stations belonging to the mobile phone operator Alfa were completely destroyed on Wednesday due to Israeli bombings in the southern suburb of Beirut. Alfa announced that it is implementing the necessary technical and operational measures to ensure service continuity and alleviate the increased strain on the network, particularly ...
Rush at Lebanese-Syrian Border as People Flee War in Lebanon
Joanne Naoum 2024-09-25 20:47 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Photos and videos circulating across Lebanese media of long queues of cars at the Lebanese-Syrian border illustrate the exodus triggered by Israel’s ongoing massive air offensive on Lebanon. For the past few days, Lebanon has been grappling with relentless Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah’s strongholds amid mounting fears of an imminent ...
274 Killed, 1,024 Wounded in Israel's Large-Scale Air Offensive on Lebanon
This Is Beirut 2024-09-23 11:05 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
The Israeli army issued a new warning on Monday, this time to the inhabitants of the Bekaa, in east Lebanon, urging them to leave areas close to where Hezbollah stores weapons. Its Arabic-speaking spokesman, Avichay Adraee, gave them a two-hour ultimatum. He specified that this was “a targeted warning." The raids, as part of an open Israeli ...
Southern Lebanon: Three Killed in an Israeli Airstrike on Kfar Kila
This Is Beirut 2024-06-28 20:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In the latest security developments on the southern border, an Israeli airstrike on the town of Kfar Kila on Friday destroyed a three-story building, resulting in the deaths of three people and leveling the building to the ground. Hezbollah announced later that one of its fighters was killed in the raid on Kfar Kila. The National News Agency ...
South Lebanon: Two Hezbollah's Drone Attacks Against Israel
This Is Beirut 2024-06-23 11:23 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A tense calm prevailed at the southern border on Sunday morning after a major escalation on Saturday. Hezbollah launched two drones' attacks against Israeli towns in the Upper Galilee. According to Israeli media, around noon on Sunday, alerts sounded in northern Israel for "hostile aircraft intrusions". According to the Israeli army, "a ...
Bodies of 2 Missing People Found in Kfar Abida
This Is Beirut 2024-05-25 13:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Civil Defense personnel recovered the bodies of citizens Yahya Ahmed Abous and Walid Yaacoub Sarkis from the sea off the Batroun coast. The members of the marine rescue unit and land centers of the Civil Defense extended their search since 2 AM to find the bodies of the citizens who were reported missing near the Kfar Abida beach. The teams ...
On the Fifth Anniversary of His Death, Homage to Patriarch Sfeir
2024-05-12 19:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
On the fifth death anniversary of Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir, homage was paid to the memory of a significant figure whose stances contributed to Lebanon's liberation from Syrian occupation. Caretaker Minister of Education Abbas Halabi praised the "central" role the Patriarch played in "preserving the sovereignty, freedom and independence of ...
IRGC Commander in Syria and Lebanon Assassinated in Damascus
This Is Beirut 2024-04-01 17:44 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israeli air strikes destroyed the Iranian embassy's consular annex in Damascus on Monday, Syrian and Iranian officials said, with a top Revolutionary Guard commander among seven members the force said were killed. Israel said it would not comment on the attack, but Iranian officials vowed a stiff response, with fears of even further violence ...
Politicians Commemorate the Cedar Revolution: 'A Journey, a Path and Continuous Fight'
This Is Beirut 2024-03-14 13:10 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
On March 14, 2005, shortly after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, the Lebanese rose in a cross-sectarian and cross-political revolutionary movement to expel the Syrian occupation from Lebanon. Today, 19 years after the withdrawal of the occupation, Lebanese politicians commemorate the "Cedar Revolution" as part of ...
Dbayeh Flooding: Sand from Construction Sites Dumped in Drainage Canals
This Is Beirut 2024-01-13 15:57 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Public Works Ali Hamieh said on Saturday that "the flooding of the highway in Dbayeh is thought to be due to the accumulation of sand from construction sites in the drainage canals." "Some people are wondering why water is accumulating on certain highways and not draining properly through the canals. A video dated Saturday, ...
A Review of the Red Cross' New Year Emergencies
2024-01-01 15:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In a commendable effort to ensure the safety of citizens during New Year's Eve celebrations, the Internal Security Forces took proactive measures by conducting patrols along the coastal highway. The aim was to reduce driving speed and prevent accidents, resulting in a notable achievement as no fatalities were reported due to traffic accidents on ...
Southern Front: Tensions on the Rise, Israel Hit a Civilian Car
This Is Beirut 2023-12-29 17:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli army opened heavy machine gun fire on Friday morning, targeting the outskirts of the town of al-Bustan from its positions adjacent to Aita al-Shaab. Also, at around 10:30 this morning, an Israeli strike hit the outskirts of the town of Yaroun, while shelling targeted the outskirts of Tayr Harfa, Jebin and Imtut. In the afternoon, ...