Tag: Lebanon

LEBANON – Hezbollah operative sentenced to life over Hariri killing (Timour Azhari, Al Jazeera)

The United Nations-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon on Friday sentenced Hezbollah operative Salim Ayache to five concurrent life sentences in absentia for the 2005...

LEBANON – Lebanon’s Hezbollah rejects charges against caretaker PM in Beirut explosion (Al Arabiya)

A Hezbollah flag and a poster depicting Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. (Reuters) Lebanon’s Hezbollah group on Friday said recently filed charges were politically...

USA/LEBANON – Lebanon and the Biden Administration: Détente or More Sanctions? (Diana Moukalled, Arab Center Washington DC)

http://arabcenterdc.org/policy_analyses/lebanon-and-the-biden-administration-detente-or-more-sanctions/

LEBANON – Lebanon PM, former ministers charged over Beirut blast (Timour Azhari, Al Jazeera)

Lebanon’s outgoing Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three former ministers have been charged with negligence that led to the deaths of hundreds and injuries...

LEBANON – Lebanon’s Hezbollah sues PM Saad Hariri’s brother Bahaa over Beirut blast accusation (Al Arabiya)

Bahaa Hariri at World Economic Forum (Supplied). Lebanon’s Hezbollah is suing the estranged brother of the country’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri after he accused the...

LEBANON – Lebanon’s central bank audit is a mere smoke screen (Makram Rabah, Al Arabiya)

A man walks past the Central Bank building, in Beirut, Lebanon November 12, 2020. Picture taken November 12, 2020. (Reuters) With nearly $94 billion in...

LEBANON – Aoun’s call to empower the Lebanese caretaker cabinet is unconstitutional and wrong (Al Arabiya)

Lebanese President Michel Aoun (left) and Prime Minister Saad Hariri during the October press conference in Beirut on October 20 2016. Photograph: Mohamed Azakir...

LEBANON – As Lebanon’s central bank audit crumbles, the worst is yet to come (Houshig Kaymakamian, Al Arabiya)

Lebanese police stand outside the entrance of the Association of Banks in downtown Beirut, Lebanon on November 1, 2019. (Reuters) Lebanon’s controversial central bank forensic...

LEBANON – ‘Deliberate depression’: World Bank’s dire warning on Lebanon (Al Jazeera)

Lebanon has been ravaged this year by an economic and financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a deadly explosion at the Port of Beirut....

LEBANON/FRANCE – France’s Macron pushes Lebanon aid meeting with no political progress (Al Arabiya)

Lebanese President Michel Aoun welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron at Beirut International airport, Lebanon August 31, 2020. (Reuters) President Emmanuel Macron will seek to revive...

LEBANON – With Bassil sanctions, Hezbollah has lost allies, Christian political cover (Hanin Ghaddar, Al Arabiya)

According to a recent statement by US Ambassador in Lebanon Dorothy Shea, the US sanctions against former minister and head of the Christian Free...