This is Beirut, 21/06 19:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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A former bodyguard for Hassan Nasrallah, the slain leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah, was killed Saturday in an Israeli strike in Iran, according to an official from the Tehran-backed militant group. Hussein Khalil, commonly known as Abu Ali and nicknamed Nasrallah’s “shield”, was killed in Iran near the Iraqi border, the ...
Liliane Mokbel, 21/06 17:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Caught in the crossfire of the Israel-Iran war, Lebanon is struggling — against all odds — to contain the economic fallout. A near-impossible task for a country still reeling from the toll of the Hezbollah-Israel conflict, which left it drained on human, financial and institutional levels. In this climate of escalating regional tension, ...
This is Beirut, 21/06 13:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
From Friday night into Saturday, the Israeli military intensified its strikes in southern Lebanon amid escalating regional tensions between Israel and Iran. The Israeli army fired bursts of gunfire from the radar site toward the outskirts of Shebaa on Saturday. Lebanese army units, including engineering teams, intelligence forces, and the ...
Marilyne Jallad, 21/06 10:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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As summer gets underway, a new conflict, this time between Israel and Iran, has once again cast a shadow over Lebanon. “Our summers are always ruined,” says Karl bitterly. In his forties, he launches into a familiar lament, recalling the many local and regional summers marred by war that inevitably spill over into Lebanon and wear down the ...
Bassam Abou Zeid, 20/06 15:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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When the Israeli-Iranian war comes to an end and negotiations begin, the fate of Iran’s regional proxies—chief among them Hezbollah—is expected to be decisively addressed. That war’s outcome will likely establish a new strategic equation: a non-nuclear Iran, stripped of its ballistic missile capabilities and its network of armed proxies. ...
Johnny Kortbawi, 20/06 13:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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As the world holds its breath over the escalating Iran-Israel conflict, global powers are urging de-escalation, hoping to prevent a broader war with potentially nuclear consequences. In this tense context, Naim Qassem stands out for his defiance of caution. Even the United States—Israel’s closest ally—is proceeding carefully, wary of being ...
This is Beirut, 20/06 10:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The Israeli army announced that it had struck several Hezbollah military sites in southern Lebanon late Friday afternoon. According to a statement, the targets included rocket launchers, missile launch pads, and weapons depots. The Israeli army claims that Hezbollah was attempting to reactivate its military activities in these areas, in flagrant ...
Alissar Boulos, 20/06 09:10 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Early on Friday, a missile launched by Iran struck near a technology hub in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, igniting fires close to a building housing Microsoft’s offices. Emergency responders confirmed that five people suffered minor injuries and shared images on X showing vehicles ablaze at the scene. Israeli news outlets reported ...
Marc Saikali, 19/06 15:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
While Iran and Israel hurl drones, missiles and threats back and forth, while diplomats scramble to respond, analysts raise alarms and psychological warfare escalates, a small Mediterranean country keeps doing what it does best: nothing. Lebanon, fractured and barely governed, seems oblivious to the fact that it’s sitting on a powder keg with ...
This is Beirut, 19/06 13:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Prime Minister Nawaf Salam affirmed to visiting US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack Lebanon’s commitment to staying out of regional conflicts during their meeting on Thursday. In the talks, held amid an escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, Salam emphasized the country’s “keenness not to get ...
Marc Saikali, 19/06 08:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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For 45 years, Khomeini and his successor Ali Khamenei have sought to forge a Shia crescent stretching from Kabul to Beirut, passing through Baghdad, Damascus and Sana'a. This sweeping “revolutionary” project – religious, military and political – was built on the margins, fueled by communal suffering, billions in diverted public funds and ...
Mario Chartouni, 18/06 16:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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As Israeli airstrikes and Iranian missile launches intensify across the Middle East, Iraq finds itself trapped in a precarious position amid a mounting diplomatic and military storm. Still fragile after decades of conflict, the country’s geographic and strategic location leaves it exposed to the escalating rivalry between two powerful regional ...