This is Beirut, 2025-07-06 12:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Nawaf Salam Rashaya Wael Abu Faour Taif Accord
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam reiterated on Sunday the need to fully implement the Taif Agreement, stressing that Lebanon’s failure to confine arms to the hands of the state remains a fundamental obstacle to national stability. “Arms must be confined to the hands of the state, and we have failed to fulfill this clause since the Taif ...
This is Beirut, 2025-07-05 19:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Lebanese Army South Lebanon Joseph Aoun United Kingdom
President Joseph Aoun announced that the Lebanese Army (LAF) will soon have 10,000 troops deployed south of the Litani River as part of the government’s efforts to reinforce state authority and comply with United Nations Resolution 1701. The announcement was made on Saturday during a meeting with visiting British Foreign Secretary David Lammy at ...
This is Beirut, 2025-07-05 19:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam David Lammy Ahmad al-Sharaa United Kingdom Syria
The UK's top diplomat, David Lammy, met Syria's leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Damascus on Saturday, the Syrian presidency said, in his first visit since longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad was overthrown in December. During the visit, Lammy announced that the UK is re-establishing full diplomatic ties with Syria following Assad’s ...
This is Beirut, 2025-07-05 14:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel was mulling its response on Saturday after Hamas said it was ready to start talks "immediately" on a US-sponsored proposal for a Gaza ceasefire. The security cabinet was expected to meet after the end of the Jewish Sabbath at sundown to discuss Israel's next steps as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to leave for ...
Johnny Kortbawi, 2025-07-05 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hezbollah Amal Lebanese Army Middle East
Hezbollah continues to maneuver under the weight of periodic foreign pressure, and the discourse of its remaining leadership around disarmament is beginning to shift. At the outset of the conflict, the party maintained an unyielding stance, categorically rejecting any discussion of surrendering its weapons and insisting that the aggression it ...
This is Beirut, 2025-07-05 12:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Lebanese Red Cross South Lebanon
An Israeli drone strike on Saturday killed one person in the Saf al-Hawa area of Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon. In a separate incident, two people were seriously wounded in another Israeli drone attack targeting a car in the town of Shaqra, also in the Bint Jbeil district. The Ministry of Public Health said both victims were transferred to ...
This is Beirut, 2025-07-05 11:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah Beirut Ashura Nawaf Salam
A video circulating on social media showing an armed parade in the streets of Beirut during Ashura commemorations has sparked widespread outrage among political circles and the public. Prime Minister Nawaf Salam strongly condemned the scenes, calling them “unacceptable under any pretext.” He stated that he contacted the Ministers of ...
This is Beirut, 2025-07-04 23:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam Ceasefire Hamas Palestine Gaza
Hamas said Friday it was ready to start talks "immediately" on a proposal for a ceasefire with Israel in Gaza, after holding consultations with other Palestinian factions. "The movement is ready to engage immediately and seriously in a cycle of negotiations on the mechanism to put in place" the terms of a draft truce proposal received from ...
This is Beirut, 2025-07-04 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Khaldeh strike drone Quds Force
The Israeli army’s Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee announced on Friday that the Israeli army had eliminated Qassem Salah al-Husseini, an operative working for Iran’s Quds Force, in a drone attack on his vehicle in Khaldeh. Thursday’s strike also injured three other individuals. Adraee wrote on his X account, “Yesterday, the Israeli ...
This is Beirut, 2025-07-04 17:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam USA United Nations Damascus New York Syria
Syria said on Friday it was willing to cooperate with the United States to reimplement the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel, which created a UN-patrolled buffer zone separating the two countries' forces. In a statement after a phone call with his US counterpart Marco Rubio, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani expressed Damascus's ...
Bassam Abou Zeid, 2025-07-04 15:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Hezbollah Tom Barrack Joseph Aoun Nawaf Salam
According to Lebanese sources, the anticipated response to the message conveyed by US envoy Tom Barrack regarding the disarmament of Hezbollah is expected to align with what Barrack stated in an interview with The New York Times, specifically the application of a carrot-and-stick approach toward the group. Lebanon's official response, however, ...
This is Beirut, 2025-07-04 13:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah Donald Trump
In an interview with The New York Times, Donald Trump’s special envoy for Syria and US ambassador to Turkey, Thomas J. Barrack Jr., revealed that he had recently presented a proposal to the Lebanese government aimed at disarming Hezbollah and reviving the country’s economy. The plan, delivered in June and attributed to Secretary of State ...