This is Beirut, 2025-06-26 11:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Tensions along the Lebanese border with Israel escalated on Wednesday, with a series of Israeli military operations. An Israeli drone strike targeted a “Bobcat” excavator between the towns of Shaqra and Baraachit, killing one person. Another strike was reported on a motorcycle in Beit Lif killing one person. It’s ...
Salam El Zaatari, 2025-06-26 10:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Iran United States China
On the morning of June 22, 2025, the world woke up to the smoldering ruins of Iran’s most fortified nuclear facilities – Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. The strikes, led by Israel and backed silently but unmistakably by the United States, were not a surprise to those watching closely. This wasn’t a spontaneous act of self-defense. It was the ...
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 ...
Liliane Mokbel, 2025-06-26 08:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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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 ...
This is Beirut, 2025-06-25 23:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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 ...
This is Beirut, 2025-06-25 21:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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, ...
This is Beirut, 2025-06-25 19:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is Beirut, 2025-06-25 17:04 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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 ...
This is Beirut, 2025-06-25 16:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday lamented a “very difficult day” following the deaths of seven Israeli soldiers in one of the deadliest incidents for Israel in over 20 months of war in Gaza. “This is a very difficult day for the people of Israel,” Netanyahu wrote on X. “Our heroic fighters fell ...
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 ...