par Michel Touma, 10/01 14:38 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A meticulously negotiated political resolution, under the guidance of the United States, to revert to the strict implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701; or a steadily mounting military escalation amplifying the risk of a large-scale conflagration, potentially surpassing the severity witnessed in 2006? For several weeks, the Lebanese ...
par Philippe Abi-Akl, 10/01 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Gebran Bassil Hezbollah Joseph Aoun
Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) chief Gebran Bassil is presently equidistant from all political forces, even from Hezbollah (supposedly his Mar Mikhael Agreement ally). This position is the result of the blow he suffered from his closest allies when it came to extending the tenure of the Army Commander-in-Chief. As such, the prolongation of ...
par Rami Rayess, 10/01 07:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The main question on every Lebanese citizen’s mind since the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7—which led to a political and military operation of seismic magnitude in Gaza—revolves around the nature of the conflict unfolding in southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah engaged Israel the following day. The key concern is whether it will escalate ...
par This Is Beirut, 09/01 17:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Clashes continued unabated in South Lebanon on Tuesday afternoon. An interceptor missile exploded over Mays al-Jabal, followed by recurrent low-level flights over Tyre and the surrounding area. An Israeli drone targeted an unoccupied house in Odaisseh, which caught fire. Phosphorus shells were also fired on the outskirts of Naqoura, as were ...
par This Is Beirut, 09/01 15:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea firmly rejected an alleged plan by the Iran-backed Moumanaa axis to use the presidency as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Western envoys. "At this stage, we utterly reject the election of a symbolic president, who lacks the required attributes for the presidential position, as part of a regional ...
par This Is Beirut, 09/01 14:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hezbollah announced on Tuesday the targeting of the northern region command headquarters of the Israeli army in the city of Safed (Dado barracks, 12 kilometers from the border) with several explosive-laden drones. This is the deepest location targeted by Hezbollah since October 8. The attack was done in retaliation to Israel’s killing of Hamas' ...
par This Is Beirut, 09/01 12:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Interior Bassam Mawlawi conducted an inspection tour on Tuesday at the Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut to assess the functioning of the inspection systems. He assured that a French company is assisting them to "ensure that the system is working properly again," and revealed that the breach is most likely ...
par This Is Beirut, 09/01 09:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Well-informed sources in Saida have revealed that MP Oussama Saad, who previously participated in elections outside the Hezbollah lists as part of a Saida alliance, has decided to break with his allies and move into the ranks of independent MPs. Saad is thus positioning himself against the opposition and loyalists, considering them to be part of ...
par Bassam Abou Zeid, 09/01 07:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Amos Hochstein Hezbollah Israel
Lebanon is stuck in the limbo of war and peace as the United States endeavors to spare it and Israel the catastrophes of a full-fledged war. The Lebanese central authority holds Israel accountable to justify its incapacity to impose peace and stability in Lebanon, but the Americans and Europeans are adamant: Hezbollah is responsible for the ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/01 18:03 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati affirmed on Monday that he is working on a “diplomatic solution to the situation in the South, which might be associated with halting the aggression on Gaza.” In an interview with journalist Mona Saliba on Al-Hurra, Mikati emphasized that what is required is “reviving and implementing the ceasefire ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/01 14:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tensions remained high on Monday morning on the southern front where a missile hit a car in the area of Khirbet Selm in the Bint Jbeil district, killing senior Hezbollah commander Wissam Tawil. Tawil, who also went by the nom de guerre Hajj Jawad, is the most senior member of the pro-Iranian group to be killed in an Israeli strike since ...
par Charles Chartouni, 08/01 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Palestine Hamas Hezbollah Israel
The tangled nature and ramifications of the Gaza war convey the larger picture of a deadlocked region living through harrowing and open-ended conflicts. The unresolved conflicts have become hallmarks and permanent fixtures in a Middle East that failed to address its endemic instabilities, systemic entropies and inability to build working Statehood ...