Lebanon Chooses a President After 2 Years of Gridlock
As the country endured economic crisis and a devastating war, lawmakers failed 12 times to pick a head of state. They have ...
Lebanon’s Economy Reels From War: ‘We Are Starting From Zero’
The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah may be suspended, but the damage is immense. “We came out of this war with nothing, ...
Now Is the Time to Reimagine Lebanon
The fall of the Syrian regime and loss of Iranian influence opens the door for the Lebanese to finally take their fate into ...
Behind the Dismantling of Hezbollah: Decades of Israeli Intelligence
A Times investigation shows how extensively Israel penetrated the Lebanese militia, closely tracking the group’s commanders ...
U.S. Envoy Says Israel Will Withdraw From Southern Lebanon
With the deadline looming for the terms of a fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah to be met, an American diplomat ...
U.S. Eases Some Restrictions on Humanitarian Aid to Syria
The authorization comes after rebels toppled the Syrian government last month and is intended to allow humanitarian groups to ...
Celine Haidar, the Lebanon player struck by shrapnel, has loved ones ‘waiting for her to come back to life’
The 19-year-old's family and friends tell the story of the promising player who cannot move or speak after being caught up in ...
A Month on, a Tenuous Cease-fire Holds in Lebanon
Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged strikes and accusations of breaches. Implementation of the deal has been slow. But the ...
Story of Lebanon prodigy hit by shrapnel, inside Liverpool’s ticket tout crackdown
Last autumn, amid wider conflict in the Middle East, Israel escalated its pursuit of Hezbollah, an Iran -backed Shiite ...
With Stakes High, Lebanese Lawmakers to Try Again to Choose a President
Despite pressure by the United States and others to elect a president in order to receive financial support, a consensus ...
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Heroes in Their Twilight Years, and Still in the Spotlight
A raucous retirement community in Florida; a peevish literary translator in Beirut. By Joumana Khatib ... “I recommend old age,” she said in a New York Times interview in 2020.
On This Day, Dec. 27: Beirut car bomb kills former ambassador
On Dec. 27, 2013, a car bomb in Beirut killed seven people, including Mohamad Chatah, Lebanon's former ambassador to the ...