Article represents opinion of the author   by Elliott Abrams CFR– In May, 2017 Major General Qassem Soleimani, chief of the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps’ foreign operations branch known as the Qods Force, visited the Iraq/Syria border in the company of an Iran-backed Shia militia. A spokesman for the militia, called the Popular Mobilization Forces, was quoted in […]

Khazen.org rejects any attacks against the Lebanese Army. We are praying for Lebanese Army martyr  BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s army raided a suspected Islamist militant hideout in the northern city of Tripoli late on Sunday, leading to armed clashes in which a soldier and a suspected militant were killed, the army said. The raid on […]

by thenationonlineng.net — Porsche is strengthening its presence in the Middle East by opening a Porsche Studio in Beirut, the first for the region. Similar to “Porsche on Sylt” and the “Porsche Studio Guangzhou”, the new site in the Lebanese capital adopts an innovative sales format, which enables the sports car manufacturer to interact with a […]

by Ellen Francis – BEIRUT (Reuters) – Arpi Kruzian has lived on the coastline east of Beirut for three decades. But now her balcony has a different view: a massive mound of trash rising on the Mediterranean. “This used to be the sea,” she said outside her home. “One day we looked out, we couldn’t […]

by TK Maloy – annahar.com BEIRUT: Subsidized housing loan rates increased by 0.5 percent Friday, as the Central Bank sought to shore up the banking sector’s holding of lira deposits, experts noted. “The central notion behind this is to keep depositors behind the Lebanese Pound, by allowing banks to keep up the average eight percent interest […]

by Richard Crouse, Contributor, CTV  — “The Insult,” Lebanon’s first-ever Academy Award nomination for best foreign-language film, centers around a small slight that escalates until the eyes of a nation are turned toward it. The problems begin with a leaky illegal drainpipe on Lebanese Christian auto mechanic named Tony’s (Adel Karam) Beirut balcony. When it drips water unto […]

By The Daily Star BEIRUT: Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said in an interview published Friday that Hezbollah is making decisions that aren’t in the best interest of Lebanon. Nevertheless, in an interview with Magazine, a French-language Lebanese publication, Bassil said that the Free Patriotic Movement that he heads supports Hezbollah’s actions against Israel and terrorism. “On […]

BY TOM O’CONNOR – NEWSWEEK – Israel has threatened to invade Lebanon amid a recent spat over natural resources and militant groups that, once again, raised tensions between the longtime foes. Addressing the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Lebanon’s latest plans to drill in a disputed […]