On the face of it, the ceasefire deal is cautiously scripting the roadmap ahead, marked by three clear phases, each lasting for six weeks- 42 days approximately. So why does the ceasefire deal, still eludes trust and confidence towards peace? And why does it not signal an end to war? Going by history, it goes…
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun appointed Nawaf Salam Prime Minister of the crisis-hit country. File | Photo Credit: AP Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday picked international jurist Nawaf Salam to form a government to pull the war-scarred country out of economic crisis. A majority of Lebanese lawmakers endorsed Mr. Salam, the presiding judge at the…
(Bloomberg) — Lebanese lawmakers will attempt to elect a first president in more than two years this week, with army commander Joseph Aoun one of the two main candidates to lead a country battered by months of war and years of economic crisis. Aoun, who has the backing of the US, partly because  of the…
Representational image | Photo Credit: Reuters A 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck Jordan and Syria late on Monday (August 12, 2014), according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), with residents across both countries and in Lebanon feeling its impacts but no immediate reports of fatalities. “The quake was at a depth of 10 km…
Urgent calls for foreign nationals to leave Lebanon grew on August 4 with France warning of “a highly volatile” situation as Iran and its allies ready their response to high-profile killings blamed on Israel. Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, which has traded near-daily fire with Israeli forces since the Gaza war broke out in October, announced…
Hezbollah fighters stand behind the coffin of their top commander Fouad Shukur, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike on July 30, as Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks through a screen during Shukur’s funeral in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. embassy in Lebanon…
