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5 days ago |
thenationalnews.com | Jamie Prentis
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has warned the group “will not allow anyone to disarm” it and that no dialogue over a broader defence strategy in Lebanon will take place until Israel withdraws from Lebanese territory. “Our weapons are the backbone of the resistance, they are the ones that liberated our country,” Mr Qassem said in a televised speech on Friday night.
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1 week ago |
thenationalnews.com | Jamie Prentis |Nada Maucourant Atallah
The shrapnel-riddled Liberty statue, damaged during Lebanon's civil war, in Beirut's Martyrs' Square. AFPLebanon still haunted by civil war’s afterlife, 50 years onWeapons may have stopped firing in Lebanon, but the old sectarian system still dominates
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3 weeks ago |
thenationalnews.com | Jamie Prentis
Walid Jumblatt on confronting Israel's 'dislocation' plans and why Syria’s new leader deserves a chanceLebanese veteran politician has witnessed every major transformation in the Middle East over the past several decades
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3 weeks ago |
thenationalnews.com | Jamie Prentis
Israel threatened on Friday to attack Beirut for the first time since a fragile ceasefire was reached with Hezbollah in November, ordering people who were within 300 metres of a building next to a school in the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs to immediately flee. In a morbid reminder of Israel's brutal war on Lebanon last year, Arabic language spokesman Avichay Adraee claimed the building was a facility belonging to Hezbollah without providing evidence.
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4 weeks ago |
thenationalnews.com | Vanessa Ghanem |Jamie Prentis
Wealth manager Karim Souaid was appointed as Lebanon’s central bank governor on Thursday, filling a position that had been held by an interim chief since July 2023. His appointment follows a weeks-long contentious battle that divided the government and tested Lebanon’s commitment to reforming its crisis-stricken economy.
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