Lebanon News » Beirut News Lebanon » Beirut » History: Lebanon seeks Greek support as Beirut pushes for Israeli withdrawal and state control over arms
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has called on Greece to continue supporting Lebanon’s army and official security forces as Beirut works to address what he described as two major challenges: the ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » History: Lebanon Archaeological Finds Showcase Rich Heritage Despite War Woes
Asharq Al Awsat From a Roman temple to ancient olive presses, Lebanon keeps turning up archaeological treasures even as the latest Israel-Hezbollah war has caused excavations to grind to a halt at ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » History: Lebanon: Support Justice for Beirut Blast Victims, Families
(Beirut) – Lebanon’s new government should take all necessary measures to strengthen judicial independence and ensure that the investigation into the August 2020 Beirut port explosion can proceed ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » History: Why Israel targets Beirut’s Dahiyeh and what the suburb means to Lebanon
For years, Beirut’s southern suburb has been spoken about as though it were a world apart: A Hezbollah bastion, a target, a warning, or a battlefield. But in Arabic, the word “dahiyeh” simply means ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » History: Lebanon crusader castle seized by Israel a symbol of bloody history
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, June 1 (Reuters) - The medieval Beaufort Castle's stone ramparts tower so far above south Lebanon that Israel could hail their capture as a strategic victory, even as it evoked the ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » History: In Lebanon, history gnaws at Israelis: Has force alone brought security?
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » History: Despite war, Lebanon reopens film archive celebrating cinematic history
BEIRUT — Lebanon reopened on Thursday the Cinematheque Libanaise, a national archive dedicated to preserving the country’s cinematic history, in a move that could provide a cultural haven as the ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » History: View from Lebanon: Beirut’s dire déjà vu as reckoning with Hezbollah beckons
Residents of Beirut were jolted awake in the early hours of Monday morning to the bone-shaking thuds. Lebanon has now become a new front in the war between the US, Israel and Iran. For days, Lebanon ...
News Lebanon » Beirut » History: Israeli flags and flattened homes: A rare look inside occupied southern Lebanon
Driving south along a coastal road in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon, village after village lies in ruins, with homes systematically flattened by Israeli forces.
News Lebanon » Beirut » History: Beirut guide gives walking tours of city's history and his own
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Tour guide Ronnie Chatah, 36, is once again doing what he loves after a four-year hiatus - telling the stories that have shaped Beirut's history from ancient to modern times. Chatah ...