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UNIFIL Mandate Shift Could Ignite Region: Will the US Push Back on Israeli Demands?
Philippe Abi-Akl 2025-07-29 08:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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One month separates Lebanon from a critical juncture, one of the most sensitive in its modern history. At the end of August, the United Nations Security Council will decide whether to renew the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for another year. The decision could either reaffirm the mission’s role or mark its ...
Defending Champions England Beat Spain on Penalties to Win Women's Euro 2025
This is Beirut 2025-07-28 13:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
England Euro 2025 football Women
Chloe Kelly converted the decisive kick as England beat Spain 3-1 on penalties to win the Women's Euro 2025 after Sunday's final had finished 1-1 at the end of extra time, allowing the Lionesses to avenge their defeat in the World Cup final of two years ago and retain their continental crown. It looked as though Spain would repeat their victory ...
‘Dialogue’ with Hezbollah: Ensuring History Does Not Repeat Itself
Michel Touma 2025-07-28 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
One of Winston Churchill’s best-known quotes is that “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” In Lebanon’s current context, the meaning is clear: if we don’t draw lessons from our recent past, we can neither navigate the present nor build any kind of future. This is especially relevant to the stance now taken by ...
The Politics of Frozen Conflicts and Their Antidotes
Charles Chartouni 2025-07-28 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Iran Yemen Hezbollah United States Syria
Paradoxically enough, the strategic contexts throughout the Middle and Near East extending between Iran and Gaza are in a state of volatility, and none of the security issues at stake have been addressed in a conclusive manner — or were ever meant to be. After the consecutive defeats that have unraveled the strategic and political realms of ...
The Unfinished Wars
Charles Chartouni 2025-07-14 10:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Iran Syria Iraq United States
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 ...
In the Footsteps of the Saint: Darb Mar Charbel, the Lebanese “Camino” in Motion
Makram Haddad 2025-07-13 09:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Beyond the cedars and valleys, a breath of holiness emerges. This is not just a road to a shrine — it’s a journey to the soul of a nation. In 2026, Lebanon will inaugurate its very first long-distance pilgrimage trail: Darb Mar Charbel, literally meaning the path of Saint Charbel. Inspired by the famous Camino de Santiago, ...
Strait of Hormuz Faces Potential Closure Amid Rising Regional Tensions
This is Beirut 2025-06-23 14:50 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Strait of Hormuz Iran Oil Gas
Iran’s parliament gave the green light to a proposal to shut down the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, a step that needs clearance from the security authorities. Such a move could significantly disrupt worldwide oil shipments and heighten tensions in an already unstable region. The Strait, which narrows to just 33 kilometers at its slimmest point, ...
US Senate in Final Push to Pass Trump Spending Bill
This is Beirut 2025-07-01 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
US senators were in a marathon session of amendment votes Monday as Republicans sought to pass Donald Trump's flagship spending bill, an unpopular package set to slash social welfare programs and add an eye-watering $3 trillion to the national debt. The president wants his "One Big Beautiful Bill" to extend his expiring first-term tax cuts at a ...
Six Pages That Could Make or Break Lebanon
Marc Saikali 2025-07-03 08:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Six pages: that’s the full length of the US document handed to Lebanese authorities. The official response to those six pages is what US special envoy Tom Barrack will be seeking during his upcoming visit, scheduled on Monday. For Lebanon’s leadership, the time has come to “step out of the shadows” and take clear, time-bound action. As ...
US Strikes Set Back Iran Nuclear Program by Up to Two Years
This is Beirut 2025-07-02 23:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
United States Pentagon Iran Iran Nuclear Program
US intelligence assessments indicate that strikes on Iranian nuclear sites set the country's atomic program back by up to two years, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. "We have degraded their program by one to two years at least; intelligence assessments inside the (Defense) Department assess that," Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told journalists, ...
‘Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way:’ Myth or Reality?
David Sahyoun 2025-07-02 18:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Will Way Myth Unconscious
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way” – most of us have grown up hearing it, whether at home, in school, or later in the workplace. It’s become so familiar that we rarely question it, repeating it like a modern mantra. But beneath its motivational appeal lies one of the more damaging myths of our time. It implies that sheer willpower ...
Basketball: Sagesse Wins a Breathtaking Semifinal Thriller
Makram Haddad 2025-07-02 08:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Sagesse Beirut Club Basketball Riyadi
They did it. Linos Gavriel’s men withstood everything: pressure, heatwaves, comebacks and a tenacious Beirut Club until the very last second. The final score was 78-77 for Sagesse, who won the decisive Game 5 and took the series 3-2. A one-point difference, just like in Game 4... except this time, luck was on their side. A resounding revenge for ...
Big Beautiful Bill: America’s Divisive Tax Overhaul
Mario Chartouni 2025-07-02 08:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Passed by the US Senate last Tuesday by a majority of 51 votes to 50, thanks to the decisive vote of Vice President J.D. Vance, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), nicknamed the “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB), is currently the most ambitious and polarizing budget bill championed by Donald Trump since his return to the political ...
Casino du Liban: Hitting the Jackpot of Scandal
This is Beirut 2025-07-01 16:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil Casino du Liban corruption gambling
For decades a beacon of entertainment in Maameltein, Casino du Liban now finds itself at the heart of a storm of scandal and investigation. At the center of a sprawling probe—where suspicions of money laundering, illegal online gambling, political collusion and opaque financial schemes converge—the iconic casino has been entangled in a series ...
Iran and the IAEA: How Far Will Tehran Push Its Standoff?
Élie-Joe Kamel 2025-06-25 20:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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On Wednesday, June 25, Iran’s parliament approved a motion to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). According to Iranian state television, 221 lawmakers voted in favor, with only one abstention and none opposed. The decision comes amid growing tensions between Tehran and Western powers. It follows an IAEA ...
Sean "Diddy" Combs Acquitted of Sex Trafficking, Convicted on Lesser Charge
This is Beirut 2025-07-03 10:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Music Trial Diddy Entertainment Culture
Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was found not guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking Wednesday but convicted of a less serious prostitution charge after a high-profile marathon trial in New York. Combs was denied bail after the jury found him guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, each of which carries a maximum ...
James Webb Telescope Discovers Its First Exoplanet
This is Beirut 2025-06-25 19:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
James Webb Space Telescope Exoplanet
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images of the relatively small world in the Earth's galactic backyard. The telescope, which can see farther into the universe than anything before it, has turbocharged the search for planets beyond the Solar System since coming ...
Hezbollah’s Hollow Promises in South Lebanon
This is Beirut 2025-06-25 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hezbollah South Lebanon Funds Compensation
In the villages of southern Lebanon, a fragile calm masks deep anger. In Blat, Khiam, Kfarchouba and Marjayoun, homes remain gutted, shops shuttered and families shattered. Months after the bombings, reconstruction stalls, suffocated by Hezbollah’s failure to deliver on its grand promises to its people. Where the state was absent, the Shia ...
Armenia PM says Foiled 'Sinister' Coup Plot by Senior Cleric
This is Beirut 2025-06-25 13:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nikol Pashinyan Armenia Azerbaijan
Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Wednesday said security forces had foiled a coup plot involving a senior cleric, amid his escalating standoff with the leadership of the powerful Apostolic Church. Pashinyan has been at loggerheads with senior clerics since 2020, when Catholicos Garegin II began calling for his resignation following ...
US Intel Says Strikes Did Not Destroy Iran Nuclear Program
This is Beirut 2025-06-25 06:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Iran Nuclear Strikes
A classified preliminary US intelligence report has concluded that American strikes on Iran set back Tehran's nuclear program by just a few months -- rather than destroying it as claimed by President Donald Trump. US media on Tuesday cited people familiar with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) findings as saying the weekend strikes did ...
Atletico Win in Vain as Botafogo Advance at Club World Cup
This is Beirut 2025-06-24 19:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Brazilian side Botafogo booked their place in the last 16 of the Club World Cup on Monday despite a 1-0 defeat to Atletico Madrid which was not enough to prevent the Spaniards crashing out. Atletico, routed 4-0 by Paris Saint-Germain in their opening game of the tournament, went into the final round of Group B fixtures knowing they would likely ...
David Lynch Lithographs on Display All Summer in France
This is Beirut 2025-06-24 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cinema Lithographs David Lynch Exhibition France Culture
Forty-nine lithographs and three experimental short films by David Lynch are on view until September 21 at the Duchamp Gallery in Yvetot, Seine-Maritime. Displayed across two floors in a dreamlike atmosphere characteristic of the American filmmaker’s work, who passed away in January, “they reveal the spirit of David Lynch, a somewhat dark ...
Syria’s Christians in the New Order: A Fight for Survival
Élie-Joe Kamel 2025-06-24 08:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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The suicide bombing that struck Saint Elias Greek Orthodox Church on Sunday, June 22, in Damascus’s Dwelaa district has reignited deep fears among Syria’s Christian community – already alarmed by the growing influence of Islamist groups in the country. The attack, claimed by the “Saraya Ansar al-Sunna” group, killed at least 22 ...
The Final Red Line: Can Lebanon Avoid the Consequences?
Salam El Zaatari 2025-07-03 10:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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As the dust settles from the most consequential Israel–Iran confrontation in decades, attention is shifting sharply to a more familiar, but no less volatile, battleground: Lebanon. The war may have moved west, but its logic remains the same. Deter, dismantle, destroy. The question no longer is whether Hezbollah will disarm, it’s what Israel ...
Hezbollah’s Last Bargain
Johnny Kortbawi 2025-07-05 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Hezbollah continues to maneuver under the weight of periodic foreign pressure, and the discourse of its remaining leadership around disarmament is beginning to shift. At the outset of the conflict, the party maintained an unyielding stance, categorically rejecting any discussion of surrendering its weapons and insisting that the aggression it ...
New 'Superman' Film Soars, Aims to Save DC Universe
This is Beirut 2025-07-12 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Cinema Film Superman DC Culture
Superman is often called upon to save the world from evildoers, but in his latest big-screen incarnation, he's also being asked to swoop in and save a franchise. James Gunn's Superman, which opened in theaters worldwide this week, is a reboot aimed at relaunching the so-called DC Universe of comic book-based superhero movies, which also features ...
Kurdish Military Chief Meets with Syrian Leader, US Envoy
This is Beirut 2025-07-09 13:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Kurdish military commander met with Syria's leader in Damascus on Wednesday in the presence of a US envoy to discuss stalled efforts to integrate the country's autonomous Kurdish administration into the Syrian state. Mazloum Abdi of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) -- the Kurdish administration's de facto army -- and interim President Ahmed ...
Erdogan says 'Turkey Has won' After Kurdish PKK Fighters Disarm
This is Beirut 2025-07-12 12:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday his country had achieved victory after Kurdish rebels destroyed their weapons, ending their decades-long armed struggle against Ankara. Friday's symbolic weapons destruction ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan marked a major step in the transition of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from ...
Request to Lift Bouchikian’s Parliamentary Immunity: What Does the Process Involve?
This is Beirut 2025-07-11 13:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon parliament immunity Georges Bouchikian corruption
Former Minister of Industry and current MP Georges Bouchikian is facing corruption allegations and is the subject of a request to lift his parliamentary immunity. In response, a joint meeting of the Bureau of Parliament and the Parliamentary Committee on Administration and Justice was held on Friday morning at Ain el-Tineh. The request, submitted ...
Five Key Dates in the Turkey-PKK Conflict
This is Beirut 2025-07-11 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) will start laying down their arms at a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday, two months after the militant group ended its armed struggle against the Turkish state. The move comes in response to a historic call by jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan in February, urging them to end their decades-long ...