“The IMF is anyway very predictable when it comes to their policy recommendations. It’s almost always a combination of austerity, privatizations, revisiting the currency regime.” On Wednesday, the Lebanese government requested the International Monetary Fund ...
Lebanon’s kafala system exploits migrant domestic workers and leaves them prone to physical and emotional abuse, with many turning to suicide as their only way out. Lebanon is a country with a population of six ...
In what some are calling a new Arab Spring, popular protests have swept across multiple Arab nations including Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria and now Kuwait. On Thursday, the emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Jaber al-Sabah, ...
Protests in Iraq and Lebanon have turned into anti-Iranian demonstrations, a blame Iran places on the U.S., but are the protests really the result of a U.S.-Iran proxy war? Recent protests in Iraq and Lebanon, ...
“The people want the downfall of the regime” chant Lebanese protesters in a second consecutive day of popular unrest. Tens of thousands of Lebanese residents continued protests for the second day in a row, on ...
An airstrike Sunday night targeted pro-Iran factions in Syria, while the party responsible is unknown, the strike fits a pattern of recent Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...
Last week, tension on the Lebanese-Israeli border escalated when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israeli military targets after accusations that Israel attacked Beirut with drones. A weekend exchange of fire has not helped de-escalation efforts. The ...
“The Lebanese government sees it best to avoid any sliding of the situation towards a dangerous escalation but this requires the international community affirming its rejection of this blatant violation.” Lebanese President Michel Aoun announced ...
Israeli claims that Hezbollah smuggles arms through Beirut is an attempt to rally the international community against Lebanon, says Hezbollah official. In a televised speech aired on Friday by the Hezbollah-run Manar TV, the leader ...
Concerned about the presence of Iranian and Hezbollah forces in Syria, Israel launched an offensive into Syria which left six civilians dead on Monday. In air raids on Syrian territories, six Syrian civilians including a ...
“They said that yes, they are prepared to sit and solve the dispute but there are still the terms (to be agreed).” Israeli Channel 13 News reported this week that Israel and Lebanon will likely ...
Oscar buzz is circulating for Capernaum, a foreign film being praised for its remarkable portrayal of an impoverished reality in Lebanon. An acclaimed new film from Lebanon is being called a “rallying cry” for children ...
June 20 is World Refugee Day, and at a time when refugees are facing mounting obstacles around the world, there is a way you can help. In June of 2017, Kiva launched a World Refugee ...
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has no obligations to save Israel if a war between the Jewish state and Iran occurs, as NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Der Spiegel last Saturday. Israel is not ...
Iran-backed Hezbollah, Amal and their allies claimed victory in Lebanese parliamentary election last Sunday, the first ballot after 2009, preliminary results showed. Hezbollah and Amal dubbed a “Shia duo” by local media outlets gained 67 ...
During an interview on Democracy Now General Wesley Clark reveals the Bush presidency's response to 9/11 was to take out 7 middle eastern countries in 5 years.
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