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Lebanon Holds the Line as US Strike Reshapes Israel-Iran Conflict

Philippe Abi-Akl, 24/06 08:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Amid a rapidly escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, Lebanon has reaffirmed its neutrality, with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri offering personal assurances to US officials that Hezbollah will not intervene. The commitment was relayed directly to President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, underscoring a unified Lebanese stance ...

Israeli Jets Bomb Hezbollah Targets North of Litani

This is Beirut, 23/06 18:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israeli warplanes launched a series of intense air raids Monday afternoon, striking multiple locations north of the Litani River in southern Lebanon. The strikes targeted a wide area spanning towns and villages in the cazas of Sidon, Nabatieh, Jezzine and Bint Jbeil, including Zarariyeh, Mahmoudiyeh, Wadi Kfar Melki, Ansar, Tibna, Baysariyeh, ...

The Mullahs’ Regime: A Legacy of Irrational Decisions

Michel Touma, 23/06 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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This may apply to individuals, but it is especially true when the future of a nation hangs in the balance. In moments of acute existential crisis, the need for self-examination becomes unavoidable — a time to evaluate past decisions and their consequences. In the uniquely complex case of the Islamic Republic of Iran, this means asking ...

Hezbollah Reiterates Solidarity with Iran

This is Beirut, 22/06 20:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Hezbollah stated in a communiqué that “the U.S. administration sought, through this criminal aggression, to achieve what the Hebrew State failed to accomplish in their ongoing attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran and to compensate for their resounding failure in achieving its goals and in confronting Iran’s painful and ...

Clear Fire and Political Warnings to Hezbollah

Bassam Abou Zeid, 22/06 16:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Lebanese officials are closely monitoring the rapidly escalating conflict between Iran and Israel, particularly following the United States’ entry into the hostilities. Washington remains concerned that Hezbollah may be drawn into the confrontation, given its longstanding military, political and ideological alignment with the Islamic Republic of ...

Trump’s Thunderbolt: America Attacks, Iran Shakes, the World Waits

Marc Saikali, 22/06 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A night that will be etched into Middle East history has just come to an end. In the early hours of June 22, 2025, Donald Trump launched a strike. Six B-2 Spirit stealth bombers took off from a US base and dropped twelve GBU-57 bunker-buster bombs on Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear site, while 30 Tomahawk missiles targeted facilities in ...

The Enemy

Amine Jules Iskandar, 22/06 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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In 1915, in the aftermath of the great genocide of Eastern Christians, Jamal Pasha introduced the concept of the enemy—an invention that proved devastatingly effective in silencing free thought, and with it, existence itself. If, as René Descartes wrote, “I think, therefore I am,” then erasing our existence first required stopping our ...

Ex-Bodyguard of Nasrallah Killed in Israeli Strike in Iran

This is Beirut, 21/06 19:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A former bodyguard for Hassan Nasrallah, the slain leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah, was killed Saturday in an Israeli strike in Iran, according to an official from the Tehran-backed militant group. Hussein Khalil, commonly known as Abu Ali and nicknamed Nasrallah’s “shield”, was killed in Iran near the Iraqi border, the ...

Lebanon on the Brink: War Fuels a Deepening Economic Crisis

Liliane Mokbel, 21/06 17:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Caught in the crossfire of the Israel-Iran war, Lebanon is struggling — against all odds — to contain the economic fallout. A near-impossible task for a country still reeling from the toll of the Hezbollah-Israel conflict, which left it drained on human, financial and institutional levels. In this climate of escalating regional tension, ...

Southern Lebanon: Israeli Strikes, UNIFIL Patrol Intercepted

This is Beirut, 21/06 13:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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From Friday night into Saturday, the Israeli military intensified its strikes in southern Lebanon amid escalating regional tensions between Israel and Iran. The Israeli army fired bursts of gunfire from the radar site toward the outskirts of Shebaa on Saturday. Lebanese army units, including engineering teams, intelligence forces, and the ...

Lebanon’s Tense Summer: When Fear Meets Humor

Marilyne Jallad, 21/06 10:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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As summer gets underway, a new conflict, this time between Israel and Iran, has once again cast a shadow over Lebanon. “Our summers are always ruined,” says Karl bitterly. In his forties, he launches into a familiar lament, recalling the many local and regional summers marred by war that inevitably spill over into Lebanon and wear down the ...

Washington: If Hezbollah Enters War, There Will Be Consequences

Bassam Abou Zeid, 20/06 15:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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When the Israeli-Iranian war comes to an end and negotiations begin, the fate of Iran’s regional proxies—chief among them Hezbollah—is expected to be decisively addressed. That war’s outcome will likely establish a new strategic equation: a non-nuclear Iran, stripped of its ballistic missile capabilities and its network of armed proxies. ...

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