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Eastern Christians: The Last Keepers of a Legacy

Marc Saikali, 2025-06-26 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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A suicide bombing, this time inside a Damascus church during Sunday Mass. Twenty-five dead. The blast silenced prayer, shattered lives and shook a community already on the brink. Eastern Christianity is dying, not in the chaos of an open warfare, but through a long, silent agony, met with the world’s indifference. In a secularized Europe where ...

Brief Surge Lifts Airline Stocks Amid Geopolitical Relief

Liliane Mokbel, 2025-06-26 08:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam United Arab Emirates Airline Stocks

European markets opened slightly higher on Wednesday, hovering between caution and relief following the announcement of a fragile truce between Israel and Iran. In early trading, Paris was up 0.17%, Frankfurt 0.20%, London 0.16%, and Milan 0.34%. The previous day, attention had shifted to the aviation sector, buoyed by hopes of easing ...

Iran Partially Reopens Airspace after Ceasefire with Israel

This is Beirut, 2025-06-25 23:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iran on Wednesday reopened the airspace over the country's east, state media reported, following a ceasefire with Israel that ended 12 days of fighting. Iran had closed its skies since June 13 after Israel launched a major bombing campaign that prompted Iran to retaliate with waves of missile strikes. A ceasefire between the two came into effect ...

Israeli Commandos Operated in Iran During 12-Day War

This is Beirut, 2025-06-25 21:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The head of Israel's military said Wednesday that Israeli commandos had operated secretly inside Iran during the countries' 12-day war. "We achieved full control over Iranian airspace and in every location where we chose to operate," chief of staff Eyal Zamir said in a televised address. "This was made possible thanks to, ...

Iran Hangs Three More Accused of Spying for Israel

This is Beirut, 2025-06-25 19:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Iran Human Rights

Iran on Wednesday hanged three men convicted of spying for Israel after what activists decried as an unfair trial, bringing to six the number of people executed on such charges since the start of the war between the Islamic republic and Israel. The hangings have also amplified fears for the life of Swedish-Iranian dual national Ahmadreza Djalali ...

Grand Serail Hosts High-Level Meeting on Lebanon Recovery Fund

This is Beirut, 2025-06-25 19:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Grand Serail hosted a strategic meeting on the Lebanon Recovery Fund (LRF), a UN-managed financing mechanism designed to coordinate international grant-based support for Lebanon’s post-crisis reconstruction and recovery. Representatives from relevant ministries and United Nations agencies attended the session, headed by Prime Minister Nawaf ...

Israel and Iran: A Conflict Fueled by Desire

David Sahyoun, 2025-06-25 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam War Iran Psychoanalysis Desire

“The master’s discourse is one that refuses to acknowledge its unconscious.” – Jacques Lacan The war we are witnessing today is fought as much through scorched landscapes as through language. What is unfolding between Iran and Israel is not simply a military or geopolitical confrontation – it is a war of discourse. Each side constructs ...

Israel Designates Iran Central Bank 'Terror Organization'

This is Beirut, 2025-06-25 17:04 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israel's defence minister on Wednesday designated Iran's central bank a "terror organization," saying the move was aimed at halting financing for Iran-backed militant groups the day after a ceasefire between the two foes took hold. Minister Israel Katz "signed a special order designating Iran's central bank, two ...

US-Iran: What Is Next?

David Hale , 2025-06-25 15:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Iran United States USA Donald Trump

While most international media are focused on what will happen today or this week between America and Iran, the real story is much bigger—the complete turning of the tables on Iran. While the headlines focus on whether Trump's ceasefire will hold, too many commentators are losing sight of the fact that Iran is trying to surrender (without ...

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 ...

How the US Carried Out Its Strikes on Iran

This is Beirut, 2025-06-25 14:30 - Reading : less than a minute

Nawaf Salam Iran Trump nuclear sites

The United States took military action against Iran's nuclear program, on Saturday, June 21, and carried out strikes that caused “extremely severe damage” to three of Iran's nuclear facilities. Here’s what we know about how the “Midnight Hammer” operation unfolded. https://x.com/ThisIsBeirut_/status/1937834911559262321  

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