Lebanon Loses a Pillar of Independent Journalism
The Daily Star’s demise is the story of Lebanon, reduced from promising country to failed state.
The Daily Star’s demise is the story of Lebanon, reduced from promising country to failed state.
As a doctor, I believe turning away from desperately ill kids – be they in Palestine or elsewhere – is a far greater crime
“Spy.” “Foreign agent.” “Traitor.” “Conspirator.” “Criminal.” “Fifth column…” These are some of the bricks of the building that is constructed, time after time, by closed regimes and parties. One of these epithets applies to anyone who does not think like them or share their opinion, and usually, all of them do.
The kingdom was a major investor in Lebanon but ties between them have strained over the past decade
If Hezbollah believes that an essential dimension of its resistance against Israel is a Lebanese environment friendly to the party and its aims, then nothing in the past two years has shown that it is implementing this idea.
On October 14, fighting broke out in Beirut between armed members of Hezbollah and the allied Amal Movement in Beirut on the one side and as yet unidentified gunmen on the other, as unarmed protestors were heading toward the Palace of Justice to oppose the ongoing investigation into the Beirut port blast of August 4, 2020.
Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai, the top Christian cleric, said on Sunday the country’s judiciary should be free of political interference and sectarian “activism” amid rising tensions over a probe into last year’s blast at Beirut port.
In Defense of Christians (IDC), the nation’s leading advocacy organization for Christians and religious minorities in the Middle East and Africa, calls for a de-escalation of tensions in light of the escalating violence in Beirut, Lebanon.
After more than a year of a political freeze, and with the most severe crisis ever to plague the Land of the Cedars in the background, billionaire Najib Mikati succeeded in forming a government
Crisis surrounds probe being conducted by Judge Tarek Bitar, who wants to question former and serving ministers linked to Hezbollah and the allied Amal Party about their responsibility for the deadly port blast