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Yesterday 22:15
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Art that glorifies genocide and is sponsored by Washington is decadent
BEIRUT — The U.S. spy den (embassy) in Beirut concluded the so-called “Thread of Hope” exhibit featuring 68 works of art by Lebanese artists over the course of a year.
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2025-04-20 22:32
Aoun says sensitive issues in Lebanon should be handled carefully
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun says he will not be rushed to disarm Hezbollah under unfavorable circumstances as the Israeli military continues to launch deadly air strikes on the country in violation of a November ceasefire, Al Jazeera reported.
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2025-04-20 22:19
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Ortagus's rude diplomacy reflects American policy
BEIRUT — With the phrase “Crack is wack, Walid,” Morgan Ortagus, the U.S. Deputy Special Envoy to West Asia, addressed Lebanon’s Druze leader Walid Jumblatt on X in response to a statement he made last weekend describing the United States’ conditions for Lebanon as “impossible.”
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2025-04-18 22:28
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Aoun’s statements cause diplomatic crisis with Baghdad
BEIRUT — During an interview with the Qatari Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (New Arab), Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said, “We will not replicate the experience of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in absorbing Hezbollah into the [Lebanese] army, nor will it be an independent unit within this army,” stressing that “the decision was made to restrict arms to the state.”
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2025-04-16 22:01
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Riyadh interferes in Lebanon’s municipal elections, excludes Hariri
BEIRUT — Not satisfied with the political quarantine it imposed on Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Saad Hariri more than two years ago, Saudi Arabia is seeking to sideline him as he announced his intention to return to political life by actively contesting the municipal elections scheduled for May 2025.
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2025-04-15 22:13
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Saudi team in Beirut to continue external pressure on Hezbollah
BEIRUT — In conjunction with the relentless pressure by Deputy U.S. Special Envoy to West Asia, Morgan Ortagus, on Hezbollah, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan visited Beirut.
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2025-04-14 21:41
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Anti-Hezbollah team openly doesn’t oppose Israel!
BEIRUT — Following the September-November Israeli aggression on Lebanon, there are signs of extreme rudeness and impudence among the anti-resistance team in approaching political matters, especially those related to the historical hostility with the Israeli occupation entity.
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2025-04-13 21:35
By Sondoss Al Asaad
AUB hosts companies funding Israel
BEIRUT — The American University of Beirut (ABU) transformed its Career Fair 2025 (held from April 7–11) into an event promoting normalization with the Israeli occupation regime by hosting companies that support the enemy, while it is supposed to enhance its students’ job prospects.
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2025-04-12 20:27
By Sondoss Al Asaad
50 years after eruption of Lebanon’s infamous civil
BEIRUT — Those who witnessed the bloody events of Lebanon’s civil war, which was triggered on April 13, 1975, had no idea that it would spark a series of crises 50 years later!
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2025-04-11 21:25
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon and the Muscat negotiations
BEIRUT — As U.S. pressure on Hezbollah escalates, the Lebanese, as well as those in West Asia and the larger world, are anticipating the U.S.-Iran negotiations.
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2025-04-10 02:16
Israeli military drone crashes in Lebanon
The Israeli army said Wednesday evening that one of its drones crashed in Lebanese territory due to a “technical malfunction.”
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2025-04-09 19:32
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Geagea is standing against Aoun and Salam
BEIRUT — Despite having four ministers in the Lebanese cabinet, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea is waging a “battle” against President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam to secure major gains ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections and to avoid being treated as a non-partisan party in any domestic or regional settlement.
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2025-04-08 21:51
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon after Ortagus’ ill-fated visit
BEIRUT — The detailed discussions of Morgan Ortagus, the US Deputy Envoy to the Middle East, during her ill-fated three-day visit to Beirut, forced an urgent meeting between heads of Lebanon’s executive and legislative powers, especially those related to the completion of the implementation of UN Resolution 1701.
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2025-04-04 19:29
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon is caught between a rock and a hard place:
Either to forcibly disarm Hezbollah or resume aggression
South Lebanon —Following the recent bombing of two residential buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs, fears have grown of Israeli adventurism that would increasingly violate the Lebanese sovereignty as part of a military-political process aimed at the final elimination of Hezbollah.
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2025-04-04 19:23
Israel’s attacks on Lebanon a ‘blatant assault’ on country’s sovereignty: PM
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has condemned Israel’s latest attack on civilians in the country, which took place this morning on the city of Sidon.
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2025-04-01 15:08
Israeli targets residential building in Beirut suburb, 4 killed
President Aoun denounces the air raid as 'a serious warning of hostile intentions'
An Israeli airstrike targeted a multistory building in the southern suburb of Lebanon's capital, Beirut, early on Tuesday, Al Mayadeen reported.
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2025-03-30 02:34
Sheikh Qassem: Hezbollah patience not endless
‘If Israel does not comply, we will have no choice but to resort to other options’
Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem stressed on Saturday that International Al-Quds Day is a day of solidarity with the occupied Al-Quds and all the oppressed all over the world against the tyrants.
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2025-03-28 16:49
Israel strikes Beirut for first time since Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire
Israeli warplanes launched at least three airstrikes in Beirut on Friday, creating chaos as residents rushed to leave.
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2025-03-26 19:36
Nobody in Lebanon wants normal ties with Israel, PM says
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has reaffirmed that no one in the country wants to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, after senior officials in Beirut accused Israeli authorities of seeking to do so, The National reported.
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2025-03-24 02:11
Iran urges UN Security Council to take immediate step to stop Israeli raids on Lebanon
TEHRAN – Iran on Sunday strongly condemned Israel’s extensive military strikes on various parts of Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire agreement, saying it is the responsibility of the international community, especially the UN Security Council and the guarantors of the ceasefire agreement, to take immediate and effective step to halt the Zionist regime’s military strikes.
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2025-03-23 03:14
By Batool Subeiti
Connection between the regional fronts in West Asia
LONDON - Under Trump, the U.S. initially sought to pause the war on Gaza in hopes of reaching a negotiated settlement and assessing possible solutions. However, when it became clear that the Palestinian resistance remained strong and could not be sidelined, the U.S. recognized that the Western position in negotiations was weak.
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2025-03-22 19:03
President blasts Israel for trying to drag Lebanon into new 'cycle of violence'
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has denounced “the attempts to drag Lebanon anew into the cycle of violence,” after at least two civilians were killed when Israeli military aircraft carried out an airstrike in southern Lebanon in a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement with the Arab country.
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2025-03-18 02:28
Child killed as Syria’s HTS militants shell civilians in eastern Lebanon
A child has been killed and four other civilians injured as militants aligned with Syria’s ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime launched a volley of rockets at a residential neighborhood in Lebanon’s eastern province of Baalbek-Hermel.
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2025-03-17 22:20
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Washington’s open interference in selecting Lebanon’s central banker
BEIRUT — In continuation of the recent U.S.-led Israeli military attacks on Lebanon and following the election of Joseph Aoun as President of the Republic and the appointment of Nawaf Salam as Prime Minister, American pressure on Lebanon is escalating in an attempt to “undermine” the influence of Hezbollah and its allies.
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2025-03-17 15:31
IRCS dispatches humanitarian aid to Lebanon
TEHRAN –The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has sent a shipment of aid to war-impacted people in Lebanon.
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2025-03-12 21:38
By Sondoss Al Asaad
US order to Lebanon: Normalization with Israel, first and last
SOUTH LEBANON — Following her previous provocative statement in Beirut that Hezbollah should have no share in the government, Morgan Ortagus, the deputy presidential special envoy to the Middle East, has said the outcome of current events is ultimately a “peace” agreement between Beirut and Tel Aviv.
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2025-03-11 22:09
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon quite prone to sectarian violence in Syria
BEIRUT — The massacres that are taking place against the Syrian civilians, especially against the Alawite sect, have exposed the hypocrisy of claims by the HTS-led regime that it is seeking to provide security, peace, dignity and justice for the Syrian people.
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2025-03-11 15:45
IRCS to send humanitarian aid to Lebanon
TEHRAN –The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) plans to send a consignment of relief items to war-impacted people in Lebanon.
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2025-03-10 22:43
By Sondoss Al Asaad
World Bank complicating reconstruction process in Lebanon
BEIRUT — At a malicious political timing that matches the anti-resistance conspiracy to prevent the reconstruction of what has been left behind by the US-led Israeli aggression, the World Bank issued a report titled “Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment in Lebanon”.
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2025-03-09 23:13
Lebanon's visually impaired population rises sharply after Israel's pager attacks
Lebanon is grappling with a sharp increase in its visually impaired population following Israel's deadly pager attacks in September 2024, which left hundreds blind, including men, women, and children.