Nawaf Salam

Trump Reaffirms Support for Israel in Phone Call with Netanyahu Following Washington Attack

This is Beirut, 2025-05-22 20:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump spoke by phone on Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the deadly attack in Washington, where two employees of the Israeli embassy were shot and killed near the Jewish museum. During the call, Trump expressed his full support for Israel’s objectives in its war against Hamas. According to a ...

Joint Committee Set to Tackle Palestinian Arms Issue in First Meeting Friday

This is Beirut, 2025-05-22 18:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Following a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced via X that a joint Lebanese-Palestinian committee will convene on Friday to establish a clear agenda for placing all illegal weapons, inside and outside Palestinian camps, under the authority of the Lebanese state. The meeting will also ...

Iran Says Will Hold US Responsible For Any Israeli Attack On its Nuclear Sites

This is Beirut, 2025-05-22 17:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would hold the United States responsible for any Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities, after US media reported that Israel was preparing for a strike. The report came even as Iran and the United States were set to meet in Rome on Friday for a fifth round of Omani-mediated nuclear talks. "We ...

Irish Rappers Kneecap Deny Hezbollah Support After Terror Charge: Statement

This is Beirut, 2025-05-22 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Irish rappers Kneecap on Thursday denied supporting a proscribed group and vowed to "vehemently defend ourselves" after a member of the band was charged with a terror offense for allegedly displaying a Hezbollah flag at a London concert. "We deny this 'offense' and will vehemently defend ourselves. This is political policing. This is a carnival ...

Army Commander Rodolphe Haykal Praises the Resilience of Lebanese Soldiers

This is Beirut, 2025-05-22 11:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Lebanese Army Commander General Rodolphe Haykal on Thursday praised the daily efforts of the country's soldiers, emphasizing the military's critical role in preserving national stability and upholding Lebanon's international commitments. In a message addressed to the troops, General Haykal highlighted the obstacles still being imposed by Israel, ...

Lines in the Sand: Syria on the Brink, and Lebanon’s Vanishing Moment

Salam El Zaatari, 2025-05-22 09:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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If you want to understand the Middle East in 2025, don’t look at the maps. Look at the fault lines. They’re not drawn in ink – they’re drawn in fear, legacy and a deep unease that this time, the region isn’t just shifting, it’s splintering. This week, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio sounded an alarm loud enough to rattle ...

Several Countries Summon Israeli Diplomats over West Bank Warning Shots

This is Beirut, 2025-05-21 23:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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France, Spain, Portugal and Uruguay have decided to summon Israeli ambassadors on Wednesday to express their deep concern following reports that Israeli forces fired warning shots near European diplomats in the occupied West Bank. Paris will summon Israel's ambassador over warning shots fired by the country's army during a visit by diplomats in ...

Rubio Sees More Arab States Normalizing with Israel this Year

This is Beirut, 2025-05-21 20:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Wednesday that more Arab nations could forge ties with Israel this year, as Washington presses hard for relations to normalize with Saudi Arabia. President Donald Trump, near the end of his first term, led the so-called Abraham Accords in which the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco became the ...

Will Banking Reforms Spark a Crisis Between Souhaid and Salam?

Maurice Matta, 2025-05-21 20:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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It seems that the relationship between Banque du Liban (BDL) Governor Karim Souhaid and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is far from ideal. In fact, it can be described as tense – a situation that didn’t arise recently but dates back to Souhaid’s appointment as Governor of the Central Bank, which was secured through a majority vote in the ...

American and Israeli Messages to Lebanon

Bassam Abou Zeid, 2025-05-21 19:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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According to information from Washington, the Americans have informed the Lebanese government that the Israelis will not withdraw from the positions they occupy in southern Lebanon unless the Lebanese side takes serious and successive steps toward disarming Hezbollah. They emphasized that Israel has no territorial ambitions in Lebanon and that ...

Cannes 2025: ‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ Revisits the Julian Assange Story

This is Beirut, 2025-05-21 16:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has recovered well after his release from jail last year, his wife told AFP ahead of the premiere of a documentary Wednesday that includes never-seen-before footage of the whistleblower. Assange is at the Cannes Festival to promote the documentary by American filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, who said he was trying to ...

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