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US Sanctions Iranian 'Weapons Networks' after UN Reimposes Restrictions
This is Beirut 2025-10-01 20:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The United States has sanctioned an alleged Iranian weapons procurement network supporting the country's ballistic missile program following the UN decision to reimpose sanctions on Tehran, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday. Washington said it was targeting 21 companies and 17 individuals who "pose a significant threat to US service ...
Hezbollah vs. the State: A Sisyphus Moment at Raouche
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-09-26 15:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah Amal Government
In a bold display of power that lays bare Lebanon’s fragile balance of forces, Hezbollah flouted every law and directive, trampling both state decisions and promises to its own allies. On Thursday evening, despite an explicit ban from Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud, the Pigeon Rock in Raouche, an iconic national and tourist landmark, was ...
Ankara, Another Tehran?
Mario Chartouni 2025-09-16 19:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Tehran Damascus Hamas Middle East
The Middle East is going through a major realignment. Iran, long at the center of regional tensions, is losing influence after years of proxy wars and direct confrontations with Israel. This decline does not mean the situation is easing. On the contrary, it creates a strategic opening that another player – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey – ...
Syrian Army Clashes with Narcotics Smugglers on Lebanese Border
This is Beirut 2025-09-26 09:55 - Reading : less than a minute
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The Syrian Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that army units clashed with a group of narcotics smugglers near Dabousiya, west of Homs, along the Lebanese-Syrian border. In a statement, the ministry said the confrontation led to the seizure of a batch of drugs, which was handed over to the competent authorities. It added that operations to ...
Washington Lifts Broad Sanctions on Syria but Maintains Pressure on Assad Allies
This is Beirut 2025-09-25 09:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The US Department of the Treasury has announced a sweeping overhaul of its sanctions' regime targeting Syria. In a statement released Wednesday, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the publication of a final rule amending the regulations on sanctions related to Syria. This update, which implements two presidential executive ...
Lebanon Steps Up Against Captagon Trafficking Network
Bassam Abou Zeid 2025-09-24 20:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah Saudi Arabia United States Captagon Drugs Security
In 2025, Lebanon achieved a significant breakthrough in the fight against the manufacturing and trafficking of Captagon pills– inflicting losses of hundreds of millions of dollars on those behind these illicit operations. Lebanese security forces demonstrated their ability to confront this criminal cartel – a challenge of major local, regional ...
Rasamny Warns Against Roadside Dumping as Winter Nears
This is Beirut 2025-09-24 11:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon CDR Fayez Rasamni Winter floods roads littering
Public Works Minister Fayez Rasamny on Wednesday urged citizens to “take responsibility” and stop dumping waste along roadsides, warning that sewage mixing with rainwater poses serious risks ahead of the winter season. In his remarks at a press conference in Dbayeh, near one of the capital’s most flood-prone areas, Rasamny outlined the ...
US Offers $10 Million for Data on Hezbollah’s Financial Networks
This is Beirut 2025-09-22 12:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon Hezbollah US State Department Rewards for Justice Iran Paraguay Argentina Brazil
The US State Department’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program offers up to $10 million for any information regarding Hezbollah’s financial networks, particularly in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. According to the State Department, Hezbollah financiers and operatives in this region generate revenue for the Iran-aligned group through illicit ...
Aoun in New York: Investments, Reforms, and Diaspora Support at the Heart of Talks
This is Beirut 2025-09-22 11:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon United Nations Lebanese Army Joseph Aoun New York
President Joseph Aoun met Sunday evening in New York with a delegation of Lebanese-American business leaders, where discussions centered on Lebanon’s economic crisis, ongoing negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the situation in southern Lebanon, infrastructure reconstruction, digital transformation, and the participation of ...
EU Proposes Ban of Russian LNG Fuel in Latest Sanctions Package
This is Beirut 2025-09-19 18:38 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The European Union proposed Friday to bring forward by a year a ban on Russian gas imports as part of new sanctions to sap Moscow's war chest and please US President Donald Trump. The 19th package of EU sanctions targeting Moscow since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine also seeks to hit firms as well as banks and traders in China, India, and other ...
SDF Arrest Senior IS Cell Leader in Syria's Eastern Deir Ezzor
This is Beirut 2025-12-21 19:50 - Reading : less than a minute
Syrian Democratic Forces Syria Islamic State Group
The Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement on Sunday that their elite units arrested a senior Islamic State cell leader during a security operation in eastern Deir Ezzor province. The SDF said the suspect supplied weapons, ammunition, and explosive devices to Islamic State cells operating in the area, describing him as one of the group’s ...
Iraq on High Alert: Baghdad Warns of Imminent Israeli Strikes
This is Beirut 2025-12-25 17:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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According to several corroborating reports cited by Israeli media, Iraqi authorities have been discreetly warned of the possibility of targeted Israeli strikes on their territory, aimed at pro-Iranian armed groups operating in the country. These warnings, described as “extremely serious,” are said to have been delivered through Western and ...
Miracle Gel for Fractures: Medical Revolution or Media Hype?
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-01 16:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Fractures Gel Bones Science China
In recent weeks, international media and social networks have been buzzing about a “miracle gel” developed by Chinese researchers. Known as Bone 02, this biomaterial reportedly repairs fractures in as little as three minutes without traditional surgery or metal implants. The concept sounds like science fiction: apply the gel to a broken bone, ...
Yemen Drone Attack Wounds 22 in Israeli Resort Town
This is Beirut 2025-09-24 20:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel's military said a drone launched from Yemen struck the southern resort town of Eilat on Wednesday, with rescuers reporting nearly two dozen wounded. A military statement said the drone "fell in the area of Eilat" on the Red Sea coast after air defenses had failed to intercept it, in the second such incident within ...
Denmark Shuts Airport Amid Suspected Drone "Hybrid Attacks" Blamed on Russia
This is Beirut 2025-09-26 10:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Danemark Drones Russie Aalborg
A sighting of a suspected drone briefly shuttered a Danish airport on Friday for the second time in a few hours, after the country's prime minister said the flights were part of "hybrid attacks" that may be linked to Russia. Drones have been seen flying over several Danish airports since Wednesday, causing one of them to close for ...
Trump Announces Steep New Tariffs, Reviving Trade War
This is Beirut 2025-09-26 05:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Tariffs
US President Donald Trump announced Thursday punishing tariffs on pharmaceuticals, big-rig trucks, home renovation fixtures and furniture, reviving his global trade war. The late evening announcement is the harshest trade policy by the president since last April's shock unveiling of reciprocal tariffs on virtually every US trading partner ...
Salam Condemns Hezbollah for Defying State Decisions, Calls for Legal Action
This is Beirut 2025-09-25 21:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah USA
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called on Thursday on the ministers of Interior, Justice and Defense to take “immediate action” and arrest those responsible for projecting images onto Beirut’s iconic Raouche Rock, in defiance of an official ban. In a post on X, Salam urged that the perpetrators be referred for investigation and “punished in ...
Claudia Cardinale and the Myth of the Mediterranean Woman
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-09-25 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Italy Tunisia Claudia Cardinale Cinema Culture Hollywood
In the wake of her passing, snippets of Claudia Cardinale’s films are flooding social media, rekindling the spell she cast on the silver screen. Each photograph of her now seems to belong to another time, a time of larger-than-life characters and burning passions, reflecting a woman of sun and sea, a Mediterranean rebel who carved her own ...
The United Nations: A Global Stage Without Teeth
Salam El Zaatari 2025-09-25 10:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
When Donald Trump addressed the UN General Assembly yesterday, his words reignited an old debate: Is the United Nations an effective institution for peace and security, or merely a costly theater where leaders posture? Trump called the UN “obsolete,” echoing his long-standing skepticism about multilateral organizations. But behind the bluster ...
Escalatorgate: Trump Demands Probe Into UN ‘Triple Sabotage’
This is Beirut 2025-09-25 05:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
US President Donald Trump demanded an investigation Wednesday into what he called "triple sabotage" after an escalator, teleprompter and sound system malfunctioned as he addressed the United Nations. The UN has said the events that happened while Trump was at its headquarters in New York on Tuesday were accidental, and partly blamed ...
Parliament Committee Approves Waste Plan Empowering Municipalities
This is Beirut 2025-09-24 15:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon Waste Municipalities Landfills Parliament Economy
The Finance and Budget Committee, chaired by MP Ibrahim Kanaan, held a session on Wednesday that focused on Lebanon’s deepening waste management crisis and financial concerns related to private sector end-of-service indemnities. The committee approved a measure that empowers municipalities to manage waste collection and treatment in exchange ...
Justice Department Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate Soros Foundation
This is Beirut 2025-09-26 15:41 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Department of Justice Donald Trump Open Society
In a move hailed by supporters as a long-overdue step toward accountability, the U.S. Justice Department has directed federal prosecutors across several jurisdictions to begin preparing investigations into the Open Society Foundations, the powerful global network funded by billionaire financier George Soros. The directive, circulated by a senior ...
Chad Signs Peace Deal With 'Last' Gold Region Militia
This is Beirut 2025-09-24 13:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Chad Militia Peace Government Gold
Chad's government has struck a peace deal with an armed group in the north of the country, ending years of conflict over gold deposits in the region, a mediator said on social media. It sees "the definitive return of peace in (the town of) Miski and the entire province of Tibesti", Ibrahim Edji Mahamat, who acted as a facilitator for talks, told ...
Trump Says Kyiv Can Win Back 'All of Ukraine' in Major Shift
This is Beirut 2025-09-23 23:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Russia Ukraine
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine could win back all of its territory from Russia and even go further, in a major pivot after meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky. The astonishing turnaround came shortly after Trump also called for NATO countries to shoot down any Russian jets that violate their airspace. "I think Ukraine, with ...
Man Convicted of Attempting to Kill Trump at Florida Golf Course
This is Beirut 2025-09-23 22:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Assassination Attempt
A man charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year was convicted by a federal jury on all counts Tuesday. Ryan Routh, 59, of Hawaii, appeared to try to stab himself in the neck with a pen after the guilty verdict was read in court, and court marshals had to restrain him, Fox News and NBC ...
Beyond Hamas: Gaza’s Emerging Tribal Militias
Mario Chartouni 2025-09-23 19:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Hamas Palestine Benjamin Netanyahu Fatah Clan
In a landscape ravaged by nearly two years of war between Israel and Hamas, local figures are stepping in to fill the void left by the weakening of the Palestinian movement in Gaza. In Kizan al-Najjar, a depopulated village south of Khan Younes in the southern enclave, Hossam al-Astal, a former Palestinian Authority officer, has announced the ...
At the UN, Aoun Reaffirms Gradual Disarmament
This is Beirut 2025-09-22 22:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
President Joseph Aoun is set to deliver Lebanon’s address before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Aoun, who arrived in New York on Sunday, held a series of meetings on Monday with representatives of the Lebanese diaspora as well as with European leaders, urging the latter to pressure Israel to end its ongoing air raids on ...
Progressive Socialist Party Secures Release of 24 Sweida Detainees
This is Beirut 2025-09-22 22:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Sweida Detainees Release Joumblatt
The Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) announced on Monday the release of 24 detainees from Sweida following sustained mediation efforts. According to a statement from the party’s Media Commission, these releases are the result of ongoing communications and initiatives led by the party since the bloody events of July. The party intensified ...
Spanish Great Busquets to Retire After MLS Season
This is Beirut 2025-09-26 14:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Inter Miami's former Barcelona and Spain star Sergio Busquets said Thursday he will retire from football at the end of the 2025 Major League Soccer season. The 37-year-old midfielder made the announcement in a social media post. "These will be my last months on the pitch. I'm retiring very happy, proud, fulfilled, and above all grateful," ...
Patrick Watson’s ‘Uh Oh’: A Soundtrack to Unsettled Times
This is Beirut 2025-09-26 19:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Music Patrick Watson Streaming Internet Canada Culture
Top-streaming Canadian singer Patrick Watson says he called his new album Uh Oh, which released Friday, to capture the sense of fatalistic doom felt by many people when they wake up and read the news. The bilingual 45-year-old multi-instrumentalist, whose ballad Je te laisserai des mots is the most-streamed francophone title ever on Spotify, said ...