Article represents opinion of the author  by Ben Brimelow – Business Insider  In the past few years, Saudi Arabia has led an intervention in Yemen’s civil war, been the driving force behind a diplomatic crisis between Qatar and its neighbors, and involved itself in the politics of Lebanon. All of these things appear to have one common […]

Ahram Online – Choosing from a total of 92 submissions, the US Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences announced Ziad Doueiri’s The Insult among nine films shortlisted for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar. The Insult, a Lebanese comedy drama, is the only film from the Arab world to make it to the shortlist. Other entries include […]

The Daily Star BEIRUT: Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil received Thursday evening a delegation from Hungary to discuss a Hungarian aid package to renovate Lebanese churches, a statement from Bassil’s media office reported. “The renovation process will include more than 32 churches across Lebanon,” Peter Heltai, ambassador-at-large of the Hungary Helps Initiative, said, according to the […]

BEIRUT, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s cabinet approved a bid on Thursday by a consortium of France’s Total, Italy’s ENI and Russia’s Novatek, in the country’s much-delayed first oil and gas offshore licensing round, a government source told Reuters. Exploratory drilling is expected to start at the beginning of 2019, Energy and Water Minister Cesar […]

BEIRUT(Reuters) – The United States, which wants to prevent violence spilling over from Syria into Lebanon, will give the Lebanese army $120 million more in aid to boost border security and counter-terrorism work, the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon said on Wednesday. Lebanon will get six MD 530G light attack helicopters, six Scan Eagle drones, and […]

By Lisa Barrington BEIRUT (Reuters) – The company formed to rebuild Lebanon’s capital Beirut after its civil war ended in 1990 is struggling to overcome the latest period of political turmoil roiling the Middle East. Until the 2011 Arab uprisings and the start of neighboring Syria’s civil war, Solidere’s property business was booming along with […]

By Louisa Loveluck and Suzan Haidamous  washingtonpost– BEIRUT — Thousands of Hezbollah supporters joined a fiery rally in Beirut on Monday as the movement’s leader urged Palestinians to rise up after President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. Demonstrators packed the streets of Beirut’s southern suburbs in a carefully managed march. Crowds chanted, “Death to America, […]

Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)Lebanese security forces clashed with protesters near the United States embassy in Beirut on Sunday over President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Hundreds of protesters and dozens of riot police gathered in front of the entrance leading to the heavily fortified embassy. Some youths in the crowd threw stones toward […]

By Elise Harris Jerusalem (CNA/EWTN News).- Christians leaders in Jerusalem have voiced fear over the repercussions of America’s recognition of the city as Israel’s capital, asking that international law be respected in the interest of maintaining peace. According to Fr. David Neuhaus, a priest in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and former Parochial Vicar for […]

BEIRUT (Reuters) – The head of an Iran-backed Iraqi Shi‘ite militia has visited Lebanon’s border with Israel accompanied by Hezbollah fighters, a video released on Saturday showed, in a show of Iranian influence that Lebanon’s prime minister called illegal. His appearance at the frontier is likely to be seen in the Middle East as an […]