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Palestinian Disarmament: Is Pandora’s Box Forever Closed?

Sana Richa Choucair, 2025-06-09 20:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Lebanon Palestinian camps Joseph Aoun Mahmoud Abbas

For the first time since the signing and subsequent annulment of the Cairo Agreement, a formal and tangible process has been launched to disarm Palestinian factions in the country’s refugee camps. On May 21, 2025, President Abbas met with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the Baabda Presidential Palace. In a joint statement released after the ...

Israeli Drone Strike Kills One in Nmairiya, South Lebanon

This is Beirut, 2025-06-09 18:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Lebanon drone Hezbollah strike Iran

An Israeli drone strike targeted a vehicle on the Wadi al-Nmairiya, Zefta road, near an unfinished mosque, killing Hassan Hijazi, a resident of Kawthariyat al-Sayyad. The attack occurred around 5:10 PM, when two guided missiles hit the car, setting it on fire and pushing it off the road. Following the strike, Israeli drones continued flying at ...

Beirut Airport Sees Record Passenger Traffic in May 2025

This is Beirut, 2025-06-09 18:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Lebanon Beirut Airport passenger traffic tourism travel

Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport (BIA) recorded a major uptick in passenger traffic in May 2025, posting its highest numbers for the month since 2019. Nearly 300,000 travelers arrived in Lebanon, reflecting a significant rebound in international travel and renewed momentum ahead of the summer holiday season. In total, 560,050 passengers ...

Finance Ministry Responds as Garbage Crisis Resurfaces

This is Beirut, 2025-06-09 12:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Lebanon Finance Ministry Beirut Mount Lebanon Waste garbage

As mounting piles of uncollected garbage reappear in several districts of Beirut and Mount Lebanon, the long-standing controversy over the state’s management of the waste sector has flared up once again. At the center of the debate are delayed payments to the companies responsible for waste collection, treatment, and landfill operations, delays ...

Plan to Repatriate Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Finalized (Asharq al-Awsat)

This is Beirut, 2025-06-09 12:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Lebanon Syria Ahmad al-Sharaa Refugees Tarek Mitri UNHCR

The Lebanese ministerial committee tasked with resolving the Syrian refugee crisis has finalized a comprehensive repatriation plan, which it intends to present to the Cabinet for approval in the coming days, Asharq al-Awsat reported on Monday. Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri, who heads the committee, said the first phase of the voluntary return ...

Lebanon/Iran: The Root Causes of the Crisis

Michel Touma, 2025-06-09 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Nine buildings were completely destroyed; nearly 70 others damaged; 115 homes reduced to rubble and more than 850 seriously affected; around 50 cars wrecked; and some 175 businesses damaged – this is the toll borne by residents of Beirut’s southern suburb following a wave of roughly twenty Israeli airstrikes on Thursday, June 5. The raids ...

Lebanon, the Unraveling Country 

Charles Chartouni, 2025-06-09 08:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Lebanon is disintegrating. The country faces a myriad of challenges, including economic collapse, political instability and social unrest, which threaten to unravel the fabric of society and plunge its citizens into further despair. The mere observation of political and security events in Lebanon yields the unequivocal impression of a decaying ...

Israeli Media: US May Withhold Support for Renewing UNIFIL Mandate

This is Beirut, 2025-06-08 21:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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According to Israeli media reports, Tel Aviv and Washington have allegedly reached an understanding not to renew the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which is set to expire at the end of August. UNIFIL’s mission has traditionally been renewed annually through a vote at the UN Security Council. On Sunday, The ...

The Lebanese Army Inspects a Site in Mreijeh Under Israeli Drone Surveillance

This is Beirut, 2025-06-08 20:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Lebanon Southern Suburb

The Lebanese Army conducted at the request of the International Ceasefire Monitoring Committee (known as "the mechanism") an inspection at the so-called al-Kazem project site, located behind the Imam al-Sadiq School in Mreijeh, in Beirut’s southern suburb on late Sunday afternoon. A military unit cordoned off the area, preventing ...

Israeli Drone Strike Kills One in Southern Lebanon

This is Beirut, 2025-06-08 14:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Lebanon Lebanese Army Southern Lebanon Hermel

An Israeli drone strike targeted a motorcycle on the Chehabiyeh-Kfar Dunin highway in southern Lebanon on Sunday, killing one person and injuring several others, according to local sources. The attack involved two missiles and triggered an immediate response from local ambulance crews. The identity of the deceased has not yet been released, and ...

Coordinated Jailbreak: 19 Detainees Escape from Ghazir Police Station

This is Beirut, 2025-06-08 12:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Lebanon Internal Security Forces Ghazir Syria Egypt

Nineteen detainees escaped from the Ghazir police station in the Keserwan district just after midnight on Saturday-Sunday, in what authorities describe as a coordinated and premeditated jailbreak. According to security sources, the group includes 13 Syrians, 5 Lebanese nationals and 1 Egyptian. The detainees reportedly breached the facility’s ...

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