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The future of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has split the United States and its European allies with implications ...
Lebanon’s Grand Jaafari Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Qabalan addressed on Sunday a message to President Joseph Aoun in which he ...
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Lebanon and the Possible Scenarios

Tensions in Lebanon are rising, and with them, political schisms are deepening, following the Lebanese government’s decision to establish a state monopoly on arms. This comes amid an increasingly ...
Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to ...
Israel has resisted increasing pressure to withdraw from these territories which along with Gaza would become a Palestinian ...
Furthermore, the responses to Auchincloss’ stilted, minimalist answers (starvation is bad; being pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian should not be mutually contradictory; Hamas has a singular ...
A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents in ...
The centre of the Astroturf surface was converted into a 22-yard cricket pitch, with stumps on each side. A few goalposts were placed along to mark makeshift boundaries and the first-ever official ...
The move is causing divisions with the US's European allies, including France and Italy, who see UNIFIL as vital for ...