Source: The Daily Star
Security & Justice
Mid-Air Interception Triggers Blast Over Keserwan as Reports Cite Iranian Missile Aimed at U.S. Target
A powerful explosion rattled parts of Mount Lebanon and the Keserwan region on Tuesday, with videos circulating on social media showing plumes of smoke rising from the coastal area of Haret Sakher.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Israel to Maintain Security Zone in Southern Lebanon Until Hezbollah Threat Neutralized, Defense Minister Says
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that the country will maintain control of a “security zone” in southern Lebanon, extending up to the Litani River, until the threat posed by Hezbollah is eliminated.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Opinion
Lebanon’s Second Chance
When Hezbollah launched attacks on northern Israel on October 8, 2023, ostensibly in solidarity with Hamas, Israel initially considered confronting its stronger northern adversary first before shifting focus south to take on Hamas in Gaza. The Biden Administration vetoed this approach, warning of potential regional or global escalation. Israel therefore prioritised operations in Gaza while engaging in tit-for-tat exchanges with Hezbollah.
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Lebanon’s Collapse Is No Accident
Lebanon’s crisis cannot be explained away as simple mismanagement. What the country now faces is something more durable and more troubling: a structural contradiction embedded deep within its political economy. Lebanon is caught in a system that cannot reconcile three competing realities—sovereignty, financial stability, and armed pluralism. At the center of that tension sits Hezbollah. Yet Hezbollah is not merely an anomaly or an external disruption. It is a powerful node inside a wider architecture of state capture and strategic fragmentation.
Monday, March 16, 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
Wednesday 25 August 2021 17:59:23
Lebanon Signs Contract with Alvarez
Caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni signed the contract with Alvarez & Marsal to conduct full forensic auditing of all the Central Bank’s accounts, a government source revealed Wednesday.
“The Finance Ministry has just signed the contract with the company and mailed the original copy of the contract. We expect the firm to start its auditing work from the offices of the ministry very soon,” the source told The Daily Star.
Sources said that even if a new Cabinet is formed and a new finance minister is appointed, the new government is obliged to abide by the contract and not hinder the work of Alvarez.
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