Source: Bloomberg
Security & Justice
Captured Hezbollah Operative May Have Been Israeli Double Agent, Report Suggests
The alleged senior Hezbollah operative abducted by Israeli special forces last week in Batroun may have been operating as a double agent, according to a report by The Telegraph.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Lebanon’s Probe into Israeli Raid Expected to Take Days as Security Officials Weigh Theories
Lebanese authorities are ramping up investigations into an Israeli commando raid last week in the northern coastal city of Batroun, during which Imad Amhaz, a Hezbollah official, was snatched.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Friday 8 April 2022 16:24:16
Saudi and Kuwait to Return Envoys to Lebanon After Yemen Rift
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have decided to return their ambassadors to Lebanon five months after a spat broke out with Beirut over controversial comments made by former Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi over the war in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia took the step after Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati confirmed his country’s commitment to take the necessary measures to enhance cooperation with the Kingdom, state-run news agency Saudi Press Agency reported, citing the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
Lebanon agreed to stop all political, military and security activities affecting the Kingdom and the GCC countries, the agency’s report said. Kuwait’s ambassador informed Mikati about his government’s decision, the Lebanese government said in a tweet.
Kordahi, who resigned in December last year, has criticized Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen as “pointless and should stop.” The comments prompted the kingdom to cut diplomatic ties with Lebanon, a step that was followed by the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain.
In the grips of its worst financial crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war, Lebanon and the International Monetary Fund earlier Thursday announced agreement on a $3 billion loan that’s contingent on Lebanon implementing a series of deeply divisive reforms.