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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 1 September 2021 09:28:21
Berri Urges Swift Govt Formation, Future MP Blames Aoun for Deadlock
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri Tuesday reiterated his call for the creation of a “civil state” in Lebanon and the swift formation of a new government this week to enact reforms and rescue the crises-hit country.
Meanwhile, as mediators strived to narrow differences between top leaders over the formation of a new government, a Future Movement MP said Tuesday the formation was being blocked by President Michel Aoun’s insistence on having 10 ministers in a 24-member Cabinet that would effectively grant him veto power.
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