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6 days ago | 
dailyherald.com | Mohamad El Chamaa |Suzan Haidamous
In a photo, released by the Lebanese Presidency press office, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, center foreground, and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, right, head a cabinet meeting Thursday at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Mohamad El Chamaa |Suzan Haidamous
Lebanese army making progress in displacing Hezbollah near Israeli border (washingtonpost.com) Lebanese army making progress in displacing Hezbollah near Israeli border By Mohamad El Chamaa; Suzan Haidamous 2025041706002400 BEIRUT — The Lebanese army has increased its deployment in the country's south over the past few months, confiscating Hezbollah's arms and dismantling its positions under the terms of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement between the militant group and Israel, according to...
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3 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Suzan Haidamous |Susannah George |Mohamad El Chamaa
BEIRUT — Israel launched a strike on a suburb of the Lebanese capital Friday, the first such attack on Beirut since late last year when Hezbollah and Israel agreed to a ceasefire that ended months of deadly fighting. The attacks Friday were the second such exchange of fire in the past week, as fears mount that the months-long fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is at risk of collapse as conflicts elsewhere in the region expand.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Suzan Haidamous |Susannah George |Mohamad El Chamaa
10 hours agoBeirut, Lebanon - March 28, 2025 Israel launched a two-rocket airstrike on a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, demolishing a building. The strike, which occurred just moments ago, sent shockwaves through the densely populated area, raising concerns over further military action.
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1 month ago | 
spokesman.com | Mohamad El Chamaa |Susannah George |Victoria Bisset |Alon Rom
BEIRUT - Israel launched strikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing at least seven people, authorities here said, in response to rockets fired from across the border earlier in the day. The exchange was the largest since the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect late last year. The ceasefire remained in place, but the action fueled concerns that Israel’s resumption of war in Gaza this week could imperil the truce in Lebanon.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Mohamad El Chamaa |Victoria Bisset |Alon Rom
BEIRUT — Israel launched strikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing at least two, in response to rockets fired from across the border earlier in the day. The exchange was the largest since the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect late last year. U.N. peacekeepers said four projectiles were launched from Lebanon into Israel near Metula at around 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Israel said six were fired and three entered Israel, where they were intercepted.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Abbie Cheeseman |Louisa Loveluck |Mohamad El Chamaa |Lior Soroka
BEIRUT — Israeli attacks killed scores of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, local authorities said, as the military expanded its ground incursion into the enclave’s north and Hamas fired back with rockets for the first time since Israel, breaking an internationally mediated ceasefire agreement, resumed strikes on the territory earlier this week.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Mohamad El Chamaa
MASSOUDIEH, Lebanon — The Syrian man was carrying his disabled 7-year-old son on his shoulders as the family arrived at a mosque just inside Lebanon to find shelter, fleeing the sectarian violence that erupted late last week in Syria’s coastal region. The boy clung to his mother’s hand while his brother, 10, cradled a bandaged arm. “The bullet went in one side and straight out the other,” the man said Wednesday, not long after reaching Massoudieh, a village less than a mile from the Syrian border.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Mohamad El Chamaa
BEIRUT — Syria’s interim government on Monday reached a landmark deal with Kurdish-led authorities to bring the oil-rich northeast under its control, a major win for President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has said he wants to unify the nation but is now under scrutiny after a wave of sectarian killings roiled the country’s northwest over the weekend.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Abbie Cheeseman |Mohamad El Chamaa
Hundreds of members of Syria’s Alawite minority, including women and children, have been killed in reprisal attacks after clashes between government forces and armed remnants of the previous regime spiraled into widespread sectarian bloodshed, monitoring groups and local officials said Sunday, presenting the most serious challenge to the country’s stability since the fall of the Assad dynasty in December.
