Bassam Abou Zeid, 2025-03-31 13:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Morgan Ortagus, Deputy US Special Envoy for the Middle East, is preparing to visit Lebanon, potentially right after Eid al-Fitr. She has laid the groundwork for this visit through a series of interviews with Arab and Lebanese media, where she emphasized a central message: Hezbollah must be disarmed. This issue is expected to be central to her ...
This is Beirut, 2025-03-31 11:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah Amal Ahmad Kabalan Parliamentary elections
In his sermon on Monday, marking Eid al-Fitr celebrations, Jaafarite Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Kabalan cautioned against the political and strategic stakes of the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for May 2026. He emphasized that Lebanon’s political and strategic survival depends on full mobilization in favor of Hezbollah and the Amal ...
This is Beirut, 2025-03-31 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Three suspects—two Lebanese nationals and one Syrian—have been arrested in connection with the rocket launches toward Israel on March 22 and 28, according to information reported by LBCI on Monday. Authorities are conducting investigations and scientific analyses, including fingerprint and DNA testing, to confirm suspicions and ...
This is Beirut, 2025-03-31 10:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump Hezbollah
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Monday of a forceful retaliation if the Islamic republic is attacked, following a threat by US President Donald Trump. "They threaten to do mischief," Khamenei said of Trump's latest threat, during a speech on Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of ...
This is Beirut, 2025-03-31 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Cinema Film Art Culture
MGM's new thriller A Working Man, with Jason Statham, emerged atop a flock of new films this weekend in North America, earning an estimated $15.2 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. The action film, from Suicide Squad director David Ayer, features Statham as a military veteran who comes out of retirement to seek the ...
This is Beirut, 2025-03-31 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Shin Bet
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu picked former navy commander Eli Sharvit to be the next head of the domestic security agency, his office said Monday, despite the supreme court freezing the dismissal of the incumbent. "After conducting in-depth interviews with seven worthy candidates, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to appoint ...
Michel Touma, 2025-03-31 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam UN Security Council Hezbollah Joseph Aoun Tehran
When a country is gripped by a deep existential crisis and confronted with an armed conflict sparked by external aggression, polarized positions often become unavoidable. This is especially true – and bears repeating – when it comes to the actions of Iran’s proxies and their regional backer, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...
Charles Chartouni, 2025-03-31 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Syria Nawaf Salam Joseph Aoun
The repeated truce breakdowns and the rising state of violence at the borders with Syria call into question the ability of the Lebanese state to regain control of its borders and oversee the gradual stabilization of Lebanese territory. The equivocations of the new government betray its inconsistencies and incapacity to come up with an integrated ...
This is Beirut, 2025-03-30 22:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Palestine United Nations Hamas Gaza
The Palestinian Red Crescent said on Sunday it had recovered the bodies of 15 rescuers killed a week ago when Israeli forces targeted ambulances in the Gaza Strip. Bodies of eight medics from the Red Crescent, six members of Gaza's civil defence agency and one employee of a UN agency were retrieved, the Red Crescent said in a statement. It said ...
This is Beirut, 2025-03-30 20:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Emmanuel Macron Palestine Ceasefire Benjamin Netanyahu
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday urged Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the strikes on Gaza and respect the ceasefire in Lebanon, in a phone call between the two leaders. Macron's intervention comes at a time when Israel has resumed its bombardment of the besieged Palestinian territory following the collapse of a ...
This is Beirut, 2025-03-30 19:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Banks West Bank Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Sunday announced the approval of a road project in the occupied West Bank that would separate traffic for Palestinians and Israelis near the Maale Adumim settlement. "The security cabinet approved last night Defense Minister Israel Katz's proposal for the construction... of a new road network ...
This is Beirut, 2025-03-30 15:55 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Dar al-Fatwa
At the request of the Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian, the Secretary of Dar al-Fatwa, Sheikh Amin al-Kurdi, delivered the Eid al-Fitr sermon at the Khatam al-Anbiya mosque in central Beirut. Al-Kurdi spoke of the “bleeding wounds” suffered by the Palestinian population and Lebanon. He declared, “Our land is still ...