Source: Kataeb.org
Security & Justice
Parliamentary Committees Approve Controversial General Amnesty Bill After Key Amendments
Lebanon’s joint parliamentary committees on Tuesday approved a revised draft general amnesty law after weeks of contentious political negotiations and disputes over its scope, amid mounting pressure over prison overcrowding, delayed trials and the fate of detainees held for years without final verdicts.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Southern Lebanon Under Fire as Strikes, Evacuations and Arrests Escalate
Israeli warplanes and drones carried out a series of strikes across southern Lebanon overnight and into Tuesday morning, targeting several towns in the Tyre, Jezzine, Nabatiyeh and Bint Jbeil districts, while artillery shelling and drone attacks left multiple casualties.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Opinion
Lebanon Must Reclaim War, Peace, and the State
Despite all the predictable attacks against the Lebanese state for daring to engage in direct talks with Israel through American mediation, the second phase of this diplomatic track has started this week, and perhaps the most important thing to say at the outset is that Lebanon no longer has the luxury of pretending that slogans, denial, or ideological purity can protect its sovereignty, its people, or what remains of its institutions.
Saturday, May 16, 2026
How Lebanon Could Finally Leave Iran’s Orbit for Good
When Lebanese President Joseph Aoun announced his country’s shift toward direct political negotiations with Israel in April, he upended the political reality that had governed Lebanon for four decades. For the first time in many years, Beirut is present at the negotiating table as a sovereign state, rather than a battleground for geopolitical competition. This is far more important than a technical border settlement; it amounts to a permanent attempt to resolve the question of whether Lebanon is a nation ruled by its own elected government, or functions merely as a proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Sports
PSV Lament Unnecessary Defeat in Champions League Clash at Juventus
PSV Eindhoven felt they should have taken more from Tuesday's Champions League away clash against Juventus where they conceded a late goal to go down 2-1 in the first leg of their Champions League knockout phase playoff tie on Tuesday.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Man City's 115 Charges Outcome 'in a Month' - Guardiola
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says the club expects to learn the outcome of the hearing into its 115 charges of alleged Premier League financial rule breaches "in one month".
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Thursday 28 March 2019 10:11:47
Dutch Art Detective Finds Picasso's Stolen Masterpiece
Arthur Brand, a Dutch detective known as the "Indiana Jones of the art world", has found a Picasso painting that was stolen 20 years ago from a Saudi sheikh's yacht on the French Riviera in 1999.
Brand handed the masterpiece to an insurance company earlier this month.
The 1938 masterpiece entitled "Portrait of Dora Maar", or "Buste de Femme (Dora Maar)", is worth €25 million.
The portrait of Maar, one of Picasso's mistresses, was hung in the Spanish painter's home until his death in 1973.
Brand previously made the headlines for returning a stolen 1,600-year-old mosaic to Cyprus and finding "Hitler's Horses", two bronze statues made by Nazi sculptor Joseph Thorak.
