World Bank20d
Lebanon Economic Monitor
The Lebanon Economic Monitor (LEM) provides an update on key economic developments and policies over a six months period. It also presents findings from recent World Bank work on Lebanon. It places ...
The New York Times24d
In Lebanon, We Took Pride in Our Resilience. Not Anymore.
She wrote from Beirut, Lebanon. The windows of my apartment in Beirut rattled with the force of the blasts. I heard screams, I heard terror, I heard death. I haven’t properly slept for weeks now.
The Financial Times25d
Lebanon feels it is being punished for a decision Hizbollah made
A quarter of Lebanon is now under Israeli evacuation orders. Almost a quarter of the population is on the move, sleeping in schools, on the street, in rented houses or hotel rooms — whatever ...
The Economist24d
Lebanon’s army is less useless than its reputation suggests
In Lebanon, they are just as likely to be spotted driving taxis. With money tight and morale low, General Joseph Aoun, the army chief, is letting his roughly 80,000 soldiers bunk off from duty ...
ABC News24d
Lebanon's civilian population suffers under Israeli military strikes
Once-safe locations are being attacked as Israel hunts Hezbollah. MAAYSRA, Lebanon -- When civil war raged in Lebanon from 1975 to 1990, Mount Lebanon became a haven for people fleeing violence in ...
Newsweek29d
It's Time to Either Fix Lebanon—Or Break It Up | Opinion
A cloud of smoke erupts following an Israeli air strike on the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on Oct. 7. A cloud of smoke erupts following an Israeli air strike ...
ABC News25d
Hospitals, health care workers under attack in Lebanon: WHO
17. The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that hospitals and health care workers are under attack in Lebanon as war intensifies between Israel and Hezbollah. The WHO said it verified 23 ...
Al Jazeera English24d
How is Lebanon’s cash-strapped government responding to war?
Israel’s war on Lebanon has thrown a country already suffering from compounding crises – economic, banking, political – into an even deeper void. A day after the start of the war in Gaza on ...
The Independent25d
Irish peacekeepers stood their ground in the face of an Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It’s not the first time
But when the Israelis ordered the Irish soldiers to vacate their observation post on the Lebanon-Israel border last week to clear the way for their invasion, they refused. The incident ...
The Washington Post28d
A once humming city, Lebanon’s Tyre is emptied by airstrikes and fear
TYRE, Lebanon — As Israeli warplanes roared overhead and their bombs plunged into the suburbs of this coastal city in southern Lebanon, a man sat by the sea with his shirt off, a lonely ...
USA Today24d
State Department urges Americans to 'depart now' from Lebanon in new advisory
The U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory on Tuesday urging U.S. citizens to leave Lebanon as soon as possible amid escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah – and while flights ...